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Recent Examples of demagogic
When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments.
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Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
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Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
First off, reading out demagogic business bashing scripts is not Biden’s nature.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
Adjective
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Some worried that freeing all of them, including criminals convicted of violence or seditious conspiracy, would backfire.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
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Three other fellow Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy were sentenced shortly before Tarrio to prison terms of 15 to 18 years.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The match ended when Heyman turned on both Punk and Reigns with a pair of treacherous low blows on each.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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In February, Star residents and City Council members clashed over competing needs for a new school and improvements to a treacherous road, with the school proposal winning out.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Foreign military interventions can change victims from being viewed as a nuisance into being seen as powerful and traitorous enemies, potentially capable of exacting revenge, seizing power, or breaking away from the state.—
Benjamin A. Valentino,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Oct. 2011
Adjective
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The rift deepened after Trump left office, with the then-former president describing his former Joint Chiefs chairman as treasonous for calling a senior Chinese military official to defuse fears of a potential U.S. attack.—
Davis Winkie,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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By then, no official blacklist existed but she was routinely assailed by right wingers as a treasonous ingrate and tool of Hanoi.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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