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Within a year, Fulbright had helped persuade 66 other senators to join him in censuring McCarthy and ending his demagogic run.
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
Unlike his contemporary, former stand-up comic Joe Rogan, whose podcast has become a platform for nonconformist politics, Maher capitalizes on the demagogic aspect of flaunting a comic façade.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024
In the aftermath of Trump’s felony conviction, the demagogic rhetoric of Trump and allied Republicans delegitimizeed democratic institutions and fostered threats of violence.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
This simplifies things to the point of turning them upside-down: Even writing in 1953, Buckley took pains to separate McCarthy’s demagogic approach from the broader issue of communist infiltration, and the subsequent opening of Soviet archives justified this attitude.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
Unlike his contemporary, former stand-up comic Joe Rogan, whose podcast has become a platform for nonconformist politics, Maher capitalizes on the demagogic aspect of flaunting a comic façade.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024
In the aftermath of Trump’s felony conviction, the demagogic rhetoric of Trump and allied Republicans delegitimizeed democratic institutions and fostered threats of violence.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
This simplifies things to the point of turning them upside-down: Even writing in 1953, Buckley took pains to separate McCarthy’s demagogic approach from the broader issue of communist infiltration, and the subsequent opening of Soviet archives justified this attitude.
—The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
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