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Adjective
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In his Broadway debut, George Clooney plays the broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, exposing the demagogic Senator Joseph R. McCarthy on air in 1954, during his Communist-hunting campaign of terror.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
1 May 2025 -
Both Medicaid and Medicare are fiscally unsustainable in their current forms, yet Democrats continue their demagogic attacks because scoring political points always trumps fiscal responsibility.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack and sentenced to 22 years in prison.—
Tom Dreisbach,
NPR,
21 May 2025
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Enrique Tarrio, who was facing 22 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan. 6, was among the hundreds of rioters who were granted pardons by Trump.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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