Demagogue (English Wikipedia)

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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Luthin, Reinhard H. (1954). American Demagogues. Beacon Press. ASIN B0007DN37C. OCLC 1098334.
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595

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Colvin, Jill (December 27, 2023). "Trump says he didn't know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler. That's part of a broader pattern". Associated Press. Retrieved January 23, 2026.

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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Signer, Michael (2009). Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230606241.
Luthin, Reinhard H. (1954). American Demagogues. Beacon Press. ASIN B0007DN37C. OCLC 1098334.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1849). The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. I, p. 530. A variant is quoted by José Ortega y Gasset in History As a System (1935), p. 76 Archived 2021-07-19 at the Wayback Machine: "We must realize that it is very hard to save a civilization when its hour has come to fall beneath the power of demagogues. For the demagogue has been the great strangler of civilization. Both Greek and Roman civilizations fell at the hands of this loathesome creature who brought from Macaulay the remark that 'in every century the vilest examples of human nature have been among demagogues.' But a man is not a demagogue simply because he stands up and shouts at the crowd. There are times when this can be a hallowed office. The real demagogy of the demagogue is in his mind and is rooted in his irresponsibility towards the ideas that he handles [the ideas of his civilization]—ideas not of his own creation, but which he has only taken over from their true creators. Demagogy is a form of intellectual degeneration."
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595

bloomberg.com (Global: 118^th place; English: 85^th place)

Wilkinson, Francis (September 17, 2024). "Trump Has Paved the Way for Future Demagogues". Bloomberg News. Retrieved May 17, 2025.

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Cooper, James Fenimore (1838). "On Demagogues". The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney. pp. 98–104. OCLC 838066322. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
Samons, Loren J. (2004). What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship. University of California Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0520236608. Archived from the original on January 19, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
Ostwald, Martin (1989). From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law. University of California Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0520067981. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
Ceaser, James W. (2011). "Demagoguery, Statesmanship, and Presidential Politics". Designing a Polity: America's Constitution in Theory and Practice. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 75–118. ISBN 978-1442207905. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1849). The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. I, p. 530. A variant is quoted by José Ortega y Gasset in History As a System (1935), p. 76 Archived 2021-07-19 at the Wayback Machine: "We must realize that it is very hard to save a civilization when its hour has come to fall beneath the power of demagogues. For the demagogue has been the great strangler of civilization. Both Greek and Roman civilizations fell at the hands of this loathesome creature who brought from Macaulay the remark that 'in every century the vilest examples of human nature have been among demagogues.' But a man is not a demagogue simply because he stands up and shouts at the crowd. There are times when this can be a hallowed office. The real demagogy of the demagogue is in his mind and is rooted in his irresponsibility towards the ideas that he handles [the ideas of his civilization]—ideas not of his own creation, but which he has only taken over from their true creators. Demagogy is a form of intellectual degeneration."
Shirer, William. William Shirer's Twentieth-Century Journey: 1930–1940: The Nightmare Years, vol. 2 Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine.
Allport, Gordon Willard. The Nature of Prejudice, 25th-anniversary edition (1979), p. 420 Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. Basic Books.
Allport, Gordon Willard. The Nature of Prejudice, 25th-anniversary edition (1979), p. 414 Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. Basic Books.
Shore, Zachary (2010). Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 16 ff. ISBN 978-1608192540. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
Rhodes, Peter John (2004). Athenian Democracy, p. 178 Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine. Oxford University Press.
Koźmiński, Andrzej K. (1993) Catching Up?: Organizational and Management Change in the Ex-Socialist Block, p. 23 Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine. SUNY Press.
Sztompka, Piotr (2003). "Trust: A Cultural Resource" in The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies, ed. Graçzyna Skñapska, Anna Maria Orla-Bukowska, Krzysztof Kowalski, p. 58 Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine. Brill.
Michael Grant, Ancient Historians, p. 98 Archived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 110–111 Archived 2017-01-19 at the Wayback Machine. Barnes & Noble Publishing (1994). ISBN 1566195993
Aristophanes, The Knights. Here Archived 2017-01-19 at the Wayback Machine is an old free version translated by William Walter Merry, Clarendon Press (1902). The translator says on p. 5:
"The picture of Cleon the demagogue has been painted for us in the comedies of Aristophanes, and in the graver history of Thucydides. On the strength of these representations, he is commonly taken as the type of the reckless mob-orator, who trades upon popular passions to advance his own interests."
Kagan, Donald (1991). The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Cornell University Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0801499401. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Harold Barrett (1991). Rhetoric and Civility: Human Development, Narcissism, and the Good Audience. SUNY Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0791404836.
Beeman, Richard (2010). Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Random House Publishing Group. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8129-7684-7.

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Aliza Worthington (May 20, 2019). "John Heilemann Warns Dems: 'Strong And Wrong Beats Weak And Right'".

dispatch.com (Global: 2,230^th place; English: 1,076^th place)

Gottlieb, Martin. "Opinion: Donald Trump is a demagogue who ran an awful campaign and won. What happens next?". The Columbus Dispatch.

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Roberts-Miller, Patricia (Fall 2005). "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric" (PDF). Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 8 (3): 459–476. doi:10.1353/rap.2005.0069. S2CID 155071922. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
Gustainis, J. Justin (Spring 1990). "Demagoguery and Political Rhetoric: A Review of the Literature" (PDF). Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 20 (2): 155–161. doi:10.1080/02773949009390878. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
Gilbert, G.M. (Summer 1955). "Dictators and Demagogues". Journal of Social Issues. 11 (3): 51–53. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1955.tb00330.x. pp. 51–52: [A demagogue's] behavior is guided more by its potential effect in beguiling public opinion than by any scrupulous regard for the truth, for basic social values, or for the integrity of the individual in his person, property, livelihood, or reputation—his assertion of patriotic and pious platitudes notwithstanding. pp. 52–53: Perhaps most dangerous of all is his insinuation that anybody who is against him is a communist sympathizer—an insinuation that has done more than anything else to intimidate free expression of opinion on vital issues and on demagoguery in America.
Lane, Melissa (2012). "The Origins of the Statesman? Demagogue Distinction in and After Ancient Athens". Journal of the History of Ideas. 73 (2): 179–200. doi:10.1353/jhi.2012.0020. S2CID 153320811.
Zug, Charles U. (September 1, 2021). "Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays's Erroneous Legacy in American Political History". American Political Thought. 10 (4): 601–628. doi:10.1086/716687. ISSN 2161-1580. S2CID 243849281.

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Kazin, Michael (October 6, 2016). "Trump and American Populism: Old Whine, New Bottles". Foreign Affairs. 95 (6). Council on Foreign Relations: 17–24. Retrieved December 20, 2025.

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"What Qualifies as Demagoguery?". History News Network. October 19, 2004. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2009.

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Merritt, Eli (May 12, 2021). "Contributor: Trump's place in history? He is the supreme American demagogue". Los Angeles Times.

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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595

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"rabble-rouser". Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2019. one that stirs up the masses of the people (as to hatred or violence) : demagogue

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Adam Nagourney (December 4, 2002). "Clinton Says Party Failed Midterm Test Over Security Issue". The New York Times.
Joe Klein (March 11, 2024). "Democrats Need to Stop Playing Nice". The New York Times.
Kristof, Nicholas (August 31, 2024). "Opinion | Here's Why We Shouldn't Demean Trump Voters". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.

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"demagogue, n." Oxford English Dictionary. June 2012. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2012. A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator.
"rabble-rouser, n." Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2019. A person who speaks with the intention of inflaming the emotions of the populace or a crowd of people, typically for political reasons; an agitator.

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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595

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Roberts-Miller, Patricia (Fall 2005). "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric" (PDF). Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 8 (3): 459–476. doi:10.1353/rap.2005.0069. S2CID 155071922. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
Gustainis, J. Justin (Spring 1990). "Demagoguery and Political Rhetoric: A Review of the Literature" (PDF). Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 20 (2): 155–161. doi:10.1080/02773949009390878. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.

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Lane, Melissa (2012). "The Origins of the Statesman? Demagogue Distinction in and After Ancient Athens". Journal of the History of Ideas. 73 (2): 179–200. doi:10.1353/jhi.2012.0020. S2CID 153320811.

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Dykeman, Wilma (Fall 1957). "The Southern Demagogue". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 33 (4): 561. ProQuest 1291778229.

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Stooksberry, Jay (November 2, 2024). "Us-Versus-Them: The Pronouns of Populism". reason. Retrieved January 23, 2026.

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"Donald Trump is a demagogue and a danger to democracy". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2025.

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Roberts-Miller, Patricia (Fall 2005). "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric" (PDF). Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 8 (3): 459–476. doi:10.1353/rap.2005.0069. S2CID 155071922. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
Lane, Melissa (2012). "The Origins of the Statesman? Demagogue Distinction in and After Ancient Athens". Journal of the History of Ideas. 73 (2): 179–200. doi:10.1353/jhi.2012.0020. S2CID 153320811.
Zug, Charles U. (September 1, 2021). "Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays's Erroneous Legacy in American Political History". American Political Thought. 10 (4): 601–628. doi:10.1086/716687. ISSN 2161-1580. S2CID 243849281.

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"Have You No Sense of Decency?". United States Senate. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2017.

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Burford, Rachael (November 7, 2024). "Trump branded 'dangerous, destructive demagogue' by Lib Dem leader". The Standard.

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Sailer-Wlasits, Paul (January 14, 2024). "Von Wählern und Verantwortung: Wie Populismus und Demagogie die Demokratie untergraben" [Of Voters and Responsibility: How Populism and Demagogy Undermine Democracy]. Telepolis (in German). Retrieved December 18, 2024.

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Worth, Robert F. (January 2, 2025). "Narendra Modi's Populist Facade Is Cracking". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 23, 2025.

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"How demagogues destroy democracy: a step-by-step global guide". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved March 25, 2026.

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Zug, Charles U. (October 3, 2022). "Demagogues in American Politics". The Constitutionalist. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
Zug, Charles (February 18, 2021). "Rhetorical Duty and the Constitutional Order". The Constitutionalist. Retrieved January 12, 2023.

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Mercieca, Jennifer (December 11, 2015). "The rhetorical brilliance of Trump the demagogue". The Conversation. Retrieved December 20, 2025.

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Smith, David (January 20, 2025). "Trump embraces role of demagogue on divine mission to reshape America". The Guardian.
Pengelly, Martin (September 13, 2023). "Mitt Romney condemns 'demagogue' Trump as he announces retirement". The Guardian.

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Bill Schneider (February 13, 2022). "The allure of 'strong and wrong'". The Hill.

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Thucydides (427 BC). History of the Peloponnesian War, book 6, §37ff Archived 2016-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, "The Mytilenean Debate."

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Khalid, Dr Imran (May 19, 2025). "A cornered demagogue". The News International. Retrieved December 23, 2025.

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Zócalo Public Square (June 20, 2016). "What History Teaches Us About Demagogues Like The Donald". TIME.

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Davis, David Martin (2016). "Texas Matters: Pass the Biscuits, Pappy", part 2 Archived 2016-08-21 at the Wayback Machine. Texas Public Radio, April 18, 2016.

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Zug, Charles U. (September 1, 2021). "Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays's Erroneous Legacy in American Political History". American Political Thought. 10 (4): 601–628. doi:10.1086/716687. ISSN 2161-1580. S2CID 243849281.

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Merritt, Eli (October 29, 2024). "There's a better term for Trump than 'fascist'". Washington Post. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
"In stark, campaign-style inaugural speech, Trump paints himself as savior". Washington Post. January 20, 2025. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

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"demagogue, n." Oxford English Dictionary. June 2012. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2012. A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator.
"rabble-rouser, n." Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2019. A person who speaks with the intention of inflaming the emotions of the populace or a crowd of people, typically for political reasons; an agitator.
"rabble-rouser". Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2019. one that stirs up the masses of the people (as to hatred or violence) : demagogue
Cooper, James Fenimore (1838). "On Demagogues". The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney. pp. 98–104. OCLC 838066322. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1849). The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. I, p. 530. A variant is quoted by José Ortega y Gasset in History As a System (1935), p. 76 Archived 2021-07-19 at the Wayback Machine: "We must realize that it is very hard to save a civilization when its hour has come to fall beneath the power of demagogues. For the demagogue has been the great strangler of civilization. Both Greek and Roman civilizations fell at the hands of this loathesome creature who brought from Macaulay the remark that 'in every century the vilest examples of human nature have been among demagogues.' But a man is not a demagogue simply because he stands up and shouts at the crowd. There are times when this can be a hallowed office. The real demagogy of the demagogue is in his mind and is rooted in his irresponsibility towards the ideas that he handles [the ideas of his civilization]—ideas not of his own creation, but which he has only taken over from their true creators. Demagogy is a form of intellectual degeneration."
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"The picture of Cleon the demagogue has been painted for us in the comedies of Aristophanes, and in the graver history of Thucydides. On the strength of these representations, he is commonly taken as the type of the reckless mob-orator, who trades upon popular passions to advance his own interests."
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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595

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Shirer (1960) writes: "He had explained the new tactics to one of his henchmen, Karl Ludecke, while still in prison: 'When I resume active work, it will be necessary to pursue a new policy. Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the result will be guaranteed by their own constitution. … Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany.'"^[45] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960) writes "A good many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes when they were in bad straits… Point 11, for example, demanded abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts… Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers, and profiteers."^[46] Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Luthin, Reinhard H. (1954). American Demagogues. Beacon Press. ASIN B0007DN37C. OCLC 1098334.
Cooper, James Fenimore (1838). "On Demagogues". The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney. pp. 98–104. OCLC 838066322. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
Shirer (1960), p. 119. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Shirer (1960), pp. 40–42. Shirer, William Lawrence (1960), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York City: Simon & Schuster, ASIN B0766DKDLR, LCCN 60006729, OCLC 1286630, OL 5794925M, Wikidata Q138029595
Zug, Charles U. (September 1, 2021). "Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays's Erroneous Legacy in American Political History". American Political Thought. 10 (4): 601–628. doi:10.1086/716687. ISSN 2161-1580. S2CID 243849281.

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