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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
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More than 1,500 people were prosecuted in a sweeping Justice Department probe, resulting in serious convictions from assaulting law enforcement to seditious conspiracy.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
12 June 2025
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Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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