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demagogue
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demagogue (sometimes US), demagog
1. a political agitator who appeals with crude oratory to the prejudice and passions of the mob
2. (esp in the ancient world) any popular political leader or orator


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Any attempt to stifle market forces would be pure populist demagogy and misguided public policy.
Class terminology, regional culture and the terms Proto-Fascism, Folkism, Demagogy or Populism have very frequently been used to explain this continuity in these and other regions from (National) Liberalism to National-Socialism.
They are historically difficult to mobilize behind a common national vision, and no Yoshida Shigeru or Konrad Adenaner can be expected to emerge from a ruling class that inclines toward demagogy and corruption.
 
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