Influential Republicans have labeled him dishonest, demagogic, dangerous, even racist.
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Some of his most demagogic performances have been exactly that.
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President Trump has made full use of the demagogic playbook.
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His success shows just how vulnerable we are to demagogic shocks.
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Muslims quickly became targets of fear, disdain and demagogic political rhetoric.
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But I don't want to hear it in a demagogic fashion.
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For a brief spell, two of those words were "demagogic" and "demagogue," suggesting people didn't really understand it when Hillary Clinton was going on about the "demagogic rhetoric" that's been at the heart of this horrific election.
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Bombastic, outsize, demagogic figures do not make for the easiest satire target.
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Malcolm X, for instance, falls onto the right side of the demagogic history.
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But more importantly, Romney ran a campaign that was utterly demagogic and dishonest.
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A third threat is the demagogic response of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters to such setbacks.
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It was slowly transforming even before the demagogic businessman began his run for office.
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Highlighting Trump's erratic behavior and demagogic rhetoric could pay off for Clinton and Kaine.
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Sermons about inclusivity have been replaced with demagogic attacks on immigrants and black athletes.
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And while Giuliani's demagogic approach won him the election, it was a tenuous victory.
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These demagogic stabs were rich coming from Ky, himself no stranger to political spoils.
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But though populism has included plenty of demagogic swindlers, it also contains reformers and democrats.
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"A demagogic frenzy ... will bring no good to the institutions," he wrote in a blog.
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It is both rarer than demagogic politicians claim, and harder to prevent than they pretend.
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Trump is engaging in an arguably thuggish, demagogic campaign, staking out controversial and offensive positions.
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Those positions made him an idealistic hero to progressives but a demagogic villain for conservatives.
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Our demagogic president demands that (mostly black) athletes be fired for engaging in peaceful protest.
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He wanted a strong president — and a way to get rid of the demagogic ones.
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Demonizing the federal government and trying to resuscitate the past may have its demagogic appeal.
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"Demagogic populism is not only a problem in America," Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Bild daily.
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Even by the exceedingly low standards of most Trump speeches, his performance Monday was remarkably demagogic.
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America has never before had a demagogic liar on the scale of Donald Trump as president.
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In many democratic countries, we are seeing a rise in demagogic populism, illiberalism, nationalism and protectionism.
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In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies.
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He has shown authoritarian, demagogic inclinations, and there are virtually no institutional counterweights in Mexico today.
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But the combination of demographic shifts and demagogic politicians has transformed the landscape of American politics.
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Demagogic leaders are taking advantage of all these various factors and using it to divide people further.
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He has never worked in government, and doesn't have the money and demagogic skill of Donald Trump.
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The 2016 election was a rebellion against the demagogic mind control of our government-media power establishment.
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Ratcliffe was selected because he exhibited blind loyalty to President Trump with his demagogic questioning of ... Mueller.
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But part of the calculus is that demagogic lies will be transmitted uncritically through the media ecosystem.
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She argues that demagogic politicians thrive in the gray area between inciting violence and calling for it.
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A small-minded and demagogic politician might have exploited Americans' anxieties and appealed to their worst instincts.
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President Donald Trump's closing argument for the 2018 midterm elections represents a dangerous escalation of demagogic rhetoric.
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In a large bowl, mix the new demagogic leader of the free world with your insignificant problems.
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Sanders is demagogic himself, though not as brazenly so as Trump, and not in a repulsive, hateful way.
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Trump also returned to his favorite demagogic theme, claiming that undocumented immigrants pose a grave threat to citizens.
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" Demagogic politicians, economic malaise, and racism, she told me, often lead people to "vote against their own interests.
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It was an anarchical moment that highlighted the comedy that is an underestimated ingredient of Trump's demagogic technique.
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As the party has become unmoored from positive belief, it has grown manipulative, demagogic and contemptuous of truth.
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The character as written is vain, self-serving and demagogic, cynically manipulating the whiplash passions of his followers.
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If Republicans can raise money, they can air plenty of dishonest, demagogic ads on hot-button culture war topics.
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Moreover, they have been singularly ineffective in advancing those goals, as Trump has become the demagogic authoritarian we feared.
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But when they align themselves with demagogic merchants of hate in order to energize their movement, it costs them.
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For it fell into a general-election campaign already marked by Mr Trump's demagogic appeals to anti-Muslim sentiment.
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After all, Mr. Jones, for all his demagogic skills, was tapping into misinformation and paranoia already on the platform.
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Francis again warned against populist politicians who he said used "demagogic terms" such as "invasion" when talking of migration.
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For his part, Romney says he can't support the real estate tycoon because of his racist and demagogic statements.
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With the Republicans in thrall to a demagogic leader, will it accept the results if Mr. Trump loses the election?
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Cruz says he wouldn't support Trump if the demagogic businessman actually shot someone on the street in New York City.
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Instead of demagogic and demoralizing attacks on our federal workforce, why don't we reinvest in a 21st-century civil service?
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But he has run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people's prejudices and fears.
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This reality was apparent to Trump, in his crude and demagogic way, as it was apparent to Bush before him.
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Under the Articles of Confederation (1781 - 85033) legal stability was jeopardized by demagogic policies pursued in some of the states.
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The difference between us and what's happening in the States is we haven't elected manifestly demagogic and incendiary politicians into office.
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As evidence, consider Mr Trump's pardon for Joe Arpaio, the demagogic, conspiracy-peddling, publicity-seeking former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.
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The Republican nominee has deliberately stoked anger, grievances and grass roots fury, using demagogic techniques to power his anti-establishment campaign.
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Then Ecuador's new president, Lenin Moreno, denounced his predecessor and one-time mentor, Rafael Correa, a demagogic admirer of Venezuela's dictator.
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We are attracted to political novices and so-called outsiders, which leaves open the possibility of the rise of demagogic figures.
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Many observers rightly condemned Trump's demagogic charge that Barack Obama was ineligible for the presidency because, supposedly, he was born abroad.
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The greater threat to American safety is demagogic safetyism, or, as another American president said in much harder times, fear itself.
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Kuma, a constant source of paradoxes and ironies, often makes demagogic statements on behalf of his own brand of architectural modesty.
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In Venezuela we saw how a politician used demagogic sectarian rhetoric to establish an authoritarian regime and then destroy a people.
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It is demagogic to warn, on national television, of foreign criminals "roaming" our streets simply because you're behind in the polls.
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So far, Trump has been extremely long on demagogic bluster but rather conventional — if extremely right-wing in some respects — on policy.
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The two women are among the more reassuring faces of a movement that is led by a demagogic erstwhile comedian, Beppe Grillo.
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Today's Republican grandees are grappling with a candidate, Donald Trump, offering something altogether more potent: demagogic language to sell a demagogue's programme.
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It is now a party led by a demagogic, authoritarian strongman whose rhetoric compares with the authoritarian, anti-democratic strongmen of history.
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Belatedly, Mr Rubio had gone after Mr Trump with crude jokes and demagogic rhetoric that proved to be more embarrassing than effective.
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If economic power is controlled by a few companies, it is much easier for a demagogic politician to gain sway over them.
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It's also very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.
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Next year's session may be more demagogic, says Stephanie Ali of New American Pathways, part of the CRSA, because state elections follow it.
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We're stuck with a demagogic leader who lies loudly and habitually, whose policies shift with the wind, whose ultimate intentions remain a mystery.
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"He has run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people's prejudices and fears," Bloomberg wrote of Trump.
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Given his uncritical embrace of Russia and blind affection for its demagogic leader, there is real danger in sharing national secrets with Trump.
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By the same token, demagogic dictators have proved unremittingly hostile to monarchy because the institution represents a dangerously venerated alternative to their ambitions.
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A hugely gifted communicator with entertainment chops, he seemed well suited to take on Donald Trump, assuming the demagogic showman seeks re-election.
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But around the same time, Donald Trump's candidacy was heating up, as were stories about his chumminess with and demagogic similarities to Putin.
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A demagogic president can walk right up to the edge of committing a crime, so long as he operates brazenly in public view.
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They fear Sanders is running a quixotic campaign that would alienate voters they need to win over and be prone to demagogic attacks.
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"It has to do with vulnerable minorities being protected from any kind of hysteria that's worked by a demagogic political leader," he said.
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Other countries across Western Europe, as well as Israel, Russia, Poland, and Hungary, seethe with demagogic assertions of ethnic, religious, and national identity.
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But there was lots of talk of populism and demagogic leadership (also sometimes characterized by comparative politics scholars as personalistic or charismatic leadership).
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As Chase Madar pointed out on Twitter, he is using America's most dangerous cities as a kind of "life raft" for a demagogic argument.
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At another point, he offered an even more demagogic line in a part of Louisiana that bears the scars of an ugly racial history.
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If there is an irony in this, it's that Ryan's economically draconian policies are arguably even more unpopular than the president's socially demagogic ones.
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Charles M. Blow There is so much we have learned from this painful election season and the rise of a demagogic real estate developer.
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Others, like me, consider him emotionally unstable, unprincipled, cruel and careless, the kind of demagogic figure the ancient Greeks and the American founders feared.
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And President Trump has already waded into the West Virginia primary, telling GOP voters that electing demagogic Don Blankenship would guarantee Manchin's re-election.
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Elites are distrusted and disliked not because Americans are bumbling dupes prone to demagogic blame-shifting, but because elites are indeed genuinely blame-worthy.
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But the danger of a demagogic, aspirational autocrat winning the White House is one problem the Madisonian constitutional order is exquisitely designed to handle.
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And this is the guy who stands at the heart of the Trump administration's social media operation — the most demagogic enterprise of our time.
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Both stories illustrate how well-meaning democratic reforms can open the floodgates to populism and nationalism and lead to the selection of demagogic leaders.
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It ignores, too, the reckoning that is due in the party that nominated him, with Ted Cruz as the more primly demagogic also-ran.
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It's easy (and appropriate!) to roll one's eyes at Trump, for a demagogic tycoon is not the natural leader of a revolution of the disenfranchised.
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In the polarized politics of the day, Mr. Trump is bolstered in his demagogic conduct by a passionately loyal "base" impressed by his norm-busting.
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Through his demagogic command of the party's base, he has emerged as the shameless, trash-talking, lib-owning fulcrum around which the entire enterprise revolves.
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And Obama and the first lady have publicly described Trump as a racist, demagogic, sexist, misogynistic menace who can't be trusted with the nuclear codes.
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Before the election, I tried to say something about why the founders went to such great lengths to design a republic resistant to demagogic shocks.
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Trump has many of the mannerisms and much of the style of a plebiscitary dictator who wields demagogic rhetoric to turn the crowd against liberal institutions.
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Expect, too, frequent referendums, less well integrated immigrants, more polarised political debates and more demagogic leaders emoting directly to and on behalf of their devoted voters.
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Demagogic discourse and fact-free policy making have become the norm under the GOP, threatening both our material well-being and the health of our democracy.
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But over the last several years, that coalition has moved to Trump's demagogic, zero-sum approach and away from Ryan and the old GOP political establishment.
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Joe McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose demagogic anti-communist crusade played out perniciously in Washington, shaking the capital to its core as it threatened democratic ideals.
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Christopher Shinn's adaptation, based on literal translations from the original German, is mercifully understated, not needing to oversell the comparisons between Horvath's demagogic times and ours.
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"Make X Great Again" is the demagogic slogan of our time, and not just with the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump in the United States.
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What is clear is that he didn't present any credentials for occupying the world's most important political position, aside from his distinguished handling of demagogic degeneracy.
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Also, as Murphy says, you've got to be careful that a restructuring of political power doesn't just leave a new demagogic-shaped hole to be filled.
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Well as the demagogic tycoon is doing with angry white men, there are probably not enough of them to cancel out such a catastrophic haemorrhaging of support.
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How can Ryan or any thoughtful American not express revulsion that the GOP standard-bearer chose to politically exploit the Orlando tragedy with boastful and demagogic bombast?
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Colombians also know something about demagogic populism, having seen its effects play out in neighboring Venezuela since Hugo Chávez began his "Bolivarian Revolution" nearly 20 years ago.
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The Mexican president's ploy was almost certainly demagogic in intent and motivation, invoking an anti-Spanish sentiment that he believes exists in Mexico, though polls suggest otherwise.
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Add a love for populism and demagogic leaders, and mix in modern elements like social media and fake news, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster.
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But he has exposed the myth that the Queen holds any power to check the land grabs of a demagogic prime minister intent on breaking the norms.
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For Democrats, such behavior validated impeachment because it confirmed the fears of the country's founders that a rogue, demagogic president could incite foreign interference in US democracy.
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People who want to reduce special interests' stranglehold on the system should focus on real reforms that would make a difference and not chase shiny demagogic objects.
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On the other hand, it allows him to pivot toward the general election by putting a more open, presidential face on what has been a demagogic primary campaign.
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Holding forth from the pounding heart of a rapturous crowd, the President spelled out a defiant, demagogic, fact-blurring record of promises kept that could win him reelection.
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That's a problem because, as it happens, our system of government depends on Congress leading the way, not scrambling after the whims of demagogic executives from alternating parties.
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"When you have someone who is running for president who is so demagogic, when someone has insulted so many groups of people, that further divides us," she said.
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Not with demagogic chants of "Lock her up," nor with quiet attempts to strong-arm an ally for the sake of digging up dirt on an American citizen.
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Among them was a reference to his summer swing through the North — to the idea that Johnson had sullied the office of the presidency with dangerous, demagogic rhetoric.
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But in true demagogic fashion, Ford took these well-grounded complaints and refashioned them into a polarizing creed of contempt for cosmopolitan urbanites, reimagined as bicycle-riding downtown elites.
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It's not clear how much of that was due to a general anti-Trump backlash or Northam's strength, and how much was due to disgust with Gillespie's demagogic tactics.
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At times, the stereotype of a coastal elite who high-five each other on a mutual adulation circuit of talk shows and well-catered parties is a demagogic slander.
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Mixing that with formal experimentation based in excess and political revolution make for a heady brew — just the libation called for in our time of right-wing, demagogic populism.
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The president's basic desire for a more growth-oriented Fed (an idea articulated in a clearer and less demagogic way this week by Senator Michael Bennet) makes some sense.
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That the system enabled the election in 2016 of precisely the kind of demagogic figure the framers designed the system to block suggests the framework may need serious repair.
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Mr. Trump's divisive and at times demagogic presidency has ignited much of the liberal upheaval, driving many left-of-center voters on to a kind of ideological war footing.
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Certainly Ryan can't, because he's a role model and because this lie epitomizes Trump's demagogic tendencies and legitimizes fake news, the dark consequences of which are becoming ever clearer.
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Contrast 1973 with 2016, where competent, experienced Hillary Clinton loses the presidential election to Donald Trump, a demagogic businessman who exploits institutionalized sexism in order to draw greater crowds.
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Until President Woodrow Wilson, for instance, the State of the Union was delivered in writing — it was thought to be unseemly, even demagogic, to deliver the speech in person.
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Because if Trump becomes president, Congress is going to be the one barricade protecting America from the demagogic hurricane of bullying fascism that Trump's campaign has been previewing for months.
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Trump's nomination would demonstrate that the movement was founded upon illusions—that it's unable to shape campaigns, and that it represents an electorate that is actually more demagogic than philosophical.
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But Mr Arpaio's record as a demagogic, law-breaking attention-seeker could allow Ms McSally to cast herself as the only candidate who is capable of winning the general election.
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A small exhibition explains that he was "reckless", a "modern tragedy" and "demagogic" as he led anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s, which showed the "dark side of patriotism".
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Hungary, where Muslims are few and anti-Muslim feeling is highest in Europe, illustrates where we must not go: a populist and demagogic political culture that leverages ignorance into antipathy.
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The response of America to both Trumps—the puppet politician who is just repeating what his military advisers are telling him and the demagogic racist—was essentially the same: meh.
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People who grew up reading Time magazine for its moderate roots slowly were turned off by the relentless pushing of demagogic and an ever more alien social and political agenda.
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But he still deplored the fact that the proposal for guaranteed income had gotten so far, calling it a "hyper-populist and demagogic" plan to give away money for nothing.
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What is required is not demagogic promises or nostalgia for a lost past, but rather a realistic effort to identify the real problems and try solutions that might actually work.
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And someone like Trump will come along and say, well, the world's run by billionaires but at least I'll be your billionaire, which is false and demagogic and generally horrible.
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All of France had just defeated a demagogic populist by a 2-to-1 vote, but it remains in a revolutionary mood amid the collapse of an ossified political system.
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Autocratic regimes with a demagogic bent are nearly always inefficient, because they cannot create and extend the network of delegated trust that is essential to making any organization work smoothly.
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Let's remember that the founders put in very strong checks against tyrannical majoritarianism: The Senate was not directly elected, the electors were meant to curb demagogic characters, and so on.
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It was a promise to his white supporters that he would put them ahead of other groups, like racial and religious minorities and immigrants — the very definition of demagogic politics.
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Within his fired-up crowds, there was an almost anarchic sense of fun that often instead came across in the TV footage as that of a demagogic candidate berating his enemies.
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" Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, called Ratcliffe's questioning of Mueller "demagogic" and said the White House selected him for intelligence director because he "exhibited blind loyalty to President Trump.
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Joseph McCarthy followed a similar trajectory: He destroyed the lives of countless Americans with his demagogic anti-communism, but only received bipartisan pushback when he went after the Army in 1954.
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Trump is racist and demagogic, but he's also secular and focused on workers, not the Wall Street tycoons and religious right that have driven Republican policy for the past three decades.
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One of the first reactions came from a Republican senator, Jeff Flake of Arizona, whose own decency has to date left him unable to endorse his party's demagogic nominee, Donald Trump.
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The blinders finally came off the eyes of millions of American who had approved, or at least not objected, to McCarthy's demagogic witch hunt against communists that ruined countless innocent lives.
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There's been a lot of talk about how the mainstream press has normalized Trump, but the mainstream press is just as aghast at the thought of a demagogic fraud being president.
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There are indigenous reasons why Donald Trump — a demagogic, incompetent, racist ignoramus — is one of only two people who have a chance to become the next president of the United States.
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We are all familiar with the ways in which Donald Trump's demagogic assault on the press has already normalized presidential mendacity, mainstreamed "alternative facts," and desensitized millions of Americans to both.
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That won't happen if we continue to let a demagogic leader continue to cast a pall of fear over America's national psyche to advance his own goals, or preserve his own power.
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So Frum's plan to craft a Trumpian-lite ideology, one that addresses the legitimate grievances of Trump's followers without the demagogic excesses, will run smack into the problem of Trump's continued relevance.
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In his speeches so far, Mr. Biden has struck a gentler chord than Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren, delivering paeans to bipartisanship and beckoning Democrats to rise above Mr. Trump's demagogic taunts.
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" And of course Mr. Bannon himself kept repeating variations of the demagogic charge that "the globalists in Washington, D.C.," eagerly anticipate that "if they can destroy Roy Moore, they can destroy you.
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There is little risk in speaking out about Mr. Trump's demagogic conduct, these Democrats argue, and party elders should recognize how serious this moment is and not diminish the anger of activists.
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Speaking at an event hosted by Brazil's real estate group Secovi, Salles said that "a series of irrational and demagogic public policies" from previous governments were to blame for the forest fires.
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In a mostly unscripted two-hour speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday — one of the most demagogic and inflammatory appearances of his presidency, Trump lacerated Mueller and his investigation.
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In many ways, the leaders, each prone to tough talk, reviling Iran and a willingness to embrace near demagogic campaign tactics and to infringe on campaign taboos over race, are political soulmates.
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When we allow hatred to go unopposed—all hatred, not just terror hatred, but even that coming from demagogic politicians—we allow the lone wolves of the world to nurture and grow.
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Rather than limit itself to this critique, the Clinton camp is also throwing in a more demagogic argument that Sanders is soft on Iran or blind to the problems with existing Iranian behavior.
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Former chief strategist and campaign manager Steve Bannon's departure from the Trump White House surely does not mean an end to the demagogic racial politics in which Donald Trump has trafficked for decades.
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Neither will electing demagogic leaders who gleefully exploit human tragedy in order to push a divisive agenda that brings us no closer to solving race relations in 2016 than it did in 1968.
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Sanders argued it was "demagogic" to portray the plan as a tax increase on the middle class, however, because they'd be saving more on their healthcare plan than they'd be paying for taxes.
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The problem: Don Blankenship, a coal baron who's spent time in prison, is running a demagogic campaign in which he's repeatedly invoked the Chinese heritage of Mitch McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
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"Since Trump has ascended, it's been clear that his demagogic instincts could be tested precisely by the sort of tragedy suffered in Orlando," New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote of Trump's remarks Sunday.
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The tweeting, impulsivity, lying, interference with prosecutorial independence, incautious rhetoric about war and peace, demagogic campaign rallies masked as presidential addresses and the like are all violations of informal customs of presidential behavior.
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Equally troubling is his use of harsh and demagogic language when describing Latinos, a tone he seemed to amplify in a series of tweets and speeches as pressure on him grew this week.
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Obama, ditching his self-imposed political exile, warned of a moment of unique national peril, in which demagogic forces -- aka Trump -- are undermining the structures of democratic government to build their own omnipotence.
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An engaged and visionary Republican president might be able to escape the loop, by pouring new ideas into his party's empty vessel — as Trump did, in his demagogic way, during the 2016 campaign.
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America will not stand for this, so if obsequious conservative politicians or lily-livered liberal ones won't sufficiently stand up to this demagogic dictator, then the American people will do the job themselves.
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Yet Canadian populism "is not the kind of divisive demagogic variety we've seen in Europe", says Jason Kenney, who was Mr Harper's minister for immigration and for multiculturalism and citizenship before becoming Alberta's premier.
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" OPINION: MANY QUESTIONS SURROUND MEXICO&aposS PRESIDENT-ELECT AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US Jose Antonio Crespo, of Mexico's Center for Economic Research, called Lopez Obrador's decision to have minimal security "a little demagogic.
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"It is a little demagogic to say, &aposI am just like anybody else, I have no privileges,&apos when he isn&apost just an average citizen, he is a head of state," Crespo said.
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He got the first question of the night — about the economy — and he completely ignored it in favor of a demagogic rant about the American soldiers who accidentally drifted into Iranian waters this week.
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That probably sounded better as Ted Kennedy's tirade against Robert Bork in 22019 — the failed nomination which eventually produced Justice Kennedy — but, regardless, it betrays a simplistic and demagogic view of our judicial branch.
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" As more and more discourse happens in snippets on social media, "can democracy avoid an evolution toward a demagogic outcome based on emotional mass appeal rather than the reasoned process the Founding Fathers imagined?
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To overcome his reputation for being squishy (the infamous "wimp factor"), Bush went overboard in the 1988 election, running rancid racist ads featuring Willie Horton and making demagogic appeals to issues like flag burning.
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Likewise, we do have to cover what a president says, even if it's false, bigoted or demagogic — but I think we can try harder to make crystal clear the efforts at manipulating the public.
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Again and again, conservative intellectuals have fastened themselves like barnacles onto demagogic movements such as the ones led by McCarthy or Trump; if they don't, they risk cutting themselves off from mass politics entirely.
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A second factor in some countries is that the battle against corruption risks degenerating into a demagogic criminalisation of politics, says Luiz Felipe d'Avila of the Centre for Public Leadership, an NGO in São Paulo.
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Voters must decide on Tuesday whether to constrain President Donald Trump and his compliant Republicans after the first two years of a demagogic presidency that widened national divides and unfolded in a torrent of scandal.
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Time and again the cameras panned over a sea of white faces standing and clapping for a demagogic anti-immigration message that made no pretense of being grounded in fussy concerns about labor market economics.
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"In different places we are presented with political actors and political leaders who assume populist and demagogic positions, and try to eliminate or destroy ... that which has taken decades to build," Pena Nieto said on Wednesday.
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For Republicans, it's also been a dog whistle—the deficit means "the government is spending too much on nonwhite people"—and Trump's knack for demagogic scapegoating makes it less relevant than it has been in decades.
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The dangers of TV, at any rate, are a cherished movie trope, included in films like "A Face in the Crowd," the 1957 satire about a drifter who rises to demagogic power through his TV show.
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At the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday, party members chanted for Hillary Clinton to be locked up, called President Obama a Muslim, and applauded a "demagogic anti-immigrant message" about Latin Americans.
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It shows that a demagogic president like Donald Trump can devalue or even depart radically from key norms, just short of committing chargeable crimes, so long as he operates mostly and brazenly in full public view.
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Elected in 20143 on a demagogic platform of rural chauvinism and white supremacy — he promised to tax the planters, give aid to the (white) poor and turn back "social equality" — Vardaman was a kind of reformer.
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Facing bipartisan criticism over his administration's family separation practice on the border, Mr. Trump renewed the sort of bald and demagogic attacks on undocumented immigrants that worked well for him politically in his 2016 presidential campaign.
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"Big Pharma" - the demagogic term used by the left to characterize the pharmaceutical industry and to stifle honest discussion by ridiculing its opponents - has had to absorb these costs, which manifest in the form of higher prices.
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And he has consistently critiqued Trump's most demagogic forays — the proposed ban on Muslim travel to America, the footsie with white supremacists, the violent climate at his rallies — as betrayals of what American conservatism ought to be.
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In a nationally televised Senate hearing, McCarthy attacked Fred Fisher, a young lawyer in the law firm representing the US Army, McCarthy's latest target in his years-long demagogic and unsuccessful hunt for communists in the government.
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"The next elections will be very important, placing the country at a crossroads, with one path leading to a continuation of reforms and the other leading nowhere," it said in a report, warning parties against pursuing "demagogic measures".
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Ben CardinBenjamin (Ben) Louis CardinSchumer: Trump address 'demagogic, undignified, highly partisan' Democrats press IRS on protecting taxpayers from debt collectors Tensions between McConnell and Schumer run high as trial gains momentum MORE (D-Md.) said in a statement.
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It was a shrewd political base-building strategy that connected Trump with a seething community of Americans susceptible to a populist, even demagogic, message based on race and class that he would later mobilize for his presidential campaign.
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Abroad, President Vladimir V. Putin is seen to be upsetting the post-Cold War balance of power in Europe, pushing the United States out of the Middle East and instigating a nationalist-demagogic resurgence across the Western world.
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Burnham was also a supporter of Joseph McCarthy, which cost him with his Cold War liberal allies: He was forced off the editorial board of Partisan Review in 1953 because he refused to condemn the demagogic senator from Wisconsin.
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The right attacks immigrants while the left rails at bankers, but the spirit of insurgency, the venting of anger at those in power and the addiction to simple, demagogic answers to complex problems are the same for both extremes.
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The bracing takeaway for Republicans is that their tightening embrace of Mr. Trump and his often demagogic politics is further alienating the upper middle-class voters — many in cities and their suburbs— who once were central to their base.
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Henry David Thoreau is an important person to have around right now, not just because 2718 is the bicentennial of his birth, but also because he is a model of resistance in an ecologically suicidal, politically demagogic American moment.
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What started out as a counterterrorism body has evolved into a gargantuan anti-immigration operation—one that is only poised to get bigger, and costlier, as the Trump White House continues spouting demagogic lies about conditions at the border.
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Ben CardinBenjamin (Ben) Louis CardinDemocrats worried about Trump's growing strength Senate Democrats queasy over Sanders as nominee Schumer: Trump address 'demagogic, undignified, highly partisan' MORE (D-Md.) said he's surprised that Trump's conduct, which GOP senators such as Sen.
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Vox's Ezra Klein tweeted about the Electoral College last week, noting that it was initially designed as an institution that might prevent a demagogic, underqualified leader and yet had ultimately been the institution that allowed Trump to win the presidency.
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They're demagogic, and we have just got to do everything we can to have China and the people in the Pacific Rim put as much pressure on North Korea and make it clear that they cannot continue to act this way.
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I couldn't let myself be overcome with shock that my country—or what has again felt like my country for the past eight years—could elect this demagogic strongman and his eye-candy arm-piece to replace the elegant, brilliant Obamas.
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There is the demagogic, megalomaniac Republican front-runner who simply appears to be winging it, just as surprised as the rest of us that he has duped enough people to position himself to have a strong chance of securing the nomination.
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It won because demagogic politicians like Nigel Farage of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) had no scruples about playing on base fears that swarms of people of different colors and religions were threatening to overwhelm the native way of life.
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Moreover, the CSU's stubborn, demagogic campaign has given the Trump administration opportunity to effectively intervene in German politics on behalf of the far right, another step toward upending the postwar transatlantic alliance, until now the bedrock of Atlantic security since 1945.
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That is important, because many of the potentially costly consequences of withdrawing from the European Union were lost in the contentious and often demagogic referendum campaign, which focused largely on emotional objections to the free movement of people within the union.
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Media fact checks and accounts of the President's serial dishonesty and shattered governing conventions merely play into his demagogic conceits that Washington elites are not just unfair to him -- but also don't understand his appeal in the "real" heartland America.
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It doesn't allow wise electors to veto demagogic candidates, it doesn't throw most presidential elections to the House of Representatives — and as my colleague Nate Cohn pointed out last week, it doesn't always give extra influence to the smallest states.
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He didn't endorse Strom Thurmond in 1948, he didn't defend lynchings or Ku Klux Klan terrorism, and he didn't engage in the kind of over-the-top demagogic rhetoric associated with Southern senators like Theodore Bilbo or "Cotton" Ed Smith.
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Sadly, now, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the surge of refugee arrivals, demagogic politicians have leveraged popular discontent, lashing out against foreigners, vowing to put their country's "true" residents first, and gradually dismantling the foundations of liberal democracy.
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He has essentially two tasks now: to bring home queasy Republicans who voted for Mr Romney in 2012 but who dislike his demagogic ways, and to demoralise Democrats who dislike Mrs Clinton to the point that they stay home and do not vote.
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For Democrats who are used to Rove unleashing demagogic attacks on their candidates, notably the character assassination of John Kerry in 2004, it was pure schadenfreude to see Bush's brain get his comeuppance from the very conspiratorial forces the GOP has unleashed.
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Meanwhile, 150 journalists from across the world are standing on a golf course in the middle of nowhere on the Ayrshire coast, awaiting the helicopter arrival of a demagogic property billionaire who could soon be the next President of the United States.
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He probably noticed that Merrick Garland couldn't get a vote on the floor of the Senate, and as official steward of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he probably noticed that Republican attacks on the stimulus bill were frequently demagogic and dishonest.
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President Trump has set a scandalous example by his demagogic policy on immigration, Britain's vote to leave the European Union was based largely on blocking immigrants, and populist and nationalist parties have exploited immigration to gain strength in many other European nations.
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In this insightful and revealing biography, Mr. Ullrich shows how Hitler used an arsenal of demagogic tools (lies, fake promises, theatrical rallies, mantralike phrases) to exploit a "constellation of crises" in post-World War I Germany, including economic woes, unemployment and political dysfunction.
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To truly brand an honest inquiry into conservative intellectual life as "Never Trump," such an effort would also have to show how Trumpism is in fact a culmination of long-unruly, demagogic, and cynically jingoistic tendencies in the house of the American right.
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Ben CardinBenjamin (Ben) Louis CardinDemocrats worried about Trump's growing strength Senate Democrats queasy over Sanders as nominee Schumer: Trump address 'demagogic, undignified, highly partisan' MORE (D-Md.) and other Democratic senators said Biden's underwhelming performance in Iowa and New Hampshire was a surprise.
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There's a certain irony in Bolton appealing to a community that fled oppression in Cuba and found prosperity on American shores even as President Donald Trump's closing argument in the 2018 midterms is demagogic fear-mongering about would-be asylum-seekers from Central America.
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In modern times, dog-whistle appeals to anti-black racism have been common, ranging from Richard Nixon's calls for "law and order" to Ronald Reagan's evocation of "welfare queens" to George H.W. Bush's demagogic Willie Horton ad to Bill Clinton's upbraiding of Sister Souljah.
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What Obama apparently never considered was that the Orwellian surveillance tools he created, and the precedents he set of killing and jailing Americans, could one day fall into the hands of a mountebank, demagogic president unrestrained by norms and perhaps even untethered from reality.
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While acknowledging that he has "been on friendly terms" with Trump for years and that he appeared on Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice" twice, Bloomberg said the celebrity real estate mogul had "run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign" he could recall.
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The other is a demagogic bigot with a puddle-deep understanding of national and international issues, who openly courts white nationalism, is hostile to women, Mexicans and Muslims, and is callously using black people as pawns in a Donnie-come-lately kinder-gentler campaign.
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But Hungary points to a different scenario: a series of changes to electoral rules and laws imposed over time that might individually be defensible but in combination with corruption and demagogic populism creates a new system — one that appears democratic but functionally is not.
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He served as an assistant United States Attorney in Charleston, and with the support of the racially demagogic South Carolina Democratic Senator Ellison "Cotton Ed" Smith, was named by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of three judges on the district court in 1942.
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Add to the list his demagogic attacks on Israeli Arabs, his closeness to far-right European leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban and his public sympathy for an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian terrorist in cold blood, and a consistent picture emerges.
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Opting for the second option taught in Autocratic Regimes 101, Putin has chosen to disguise widespread economic malaise at home by engaging in adventurism abroad, all in the name of demagogic nationalism and the "rescue" of "repressed" Russian minorities in neighboring ex-satellite states.
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" Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, did not hold back, saying that Mr. Ratcliffe was clearly "selected because he exhibited blind loyalty to President Trump with his demagogic questioning" of Mr. Mueller and that his confirmation "would be a big mistake.
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While the somewhat pedantic tone of the biennial's literature can make the art sound more demagogic than it is, the best works here compel us to reconsider or pay attention to our daily habits, from the language we use to the food we eat.
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One of his favorite tactics was positing a variety of fake realities (international conspiracies, the fictional crimes of his enemies, the imagined hellscapes of inner cities) meant to turn his base's focus away from some new mortifying revelation and back to the demagogic message of his candidacy.
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"I think we can even breach the 2 percent level on condition we do it not to fund demagogic measures but to put the country on a growth path," Cabinet Undersecretary Giancarlo Giorgetti, a prominent member of the League, said in a television interview on Wednesday night.
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And as you go through the show it becomes clear how important it is to have him present, right now: not just because 2017 is the bicentenary of his birth but because he is a model of resistance in a rived, self-destructive, demagogic political moment.
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The 45th president of the United States comes to office at a calmer time than the 32nd did, but Donald Trump's demagogic populism and his movement's willingness to traffic in ethnic and racial stereotypes have put many Americans in the mind of the chaos of the 1930s.
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I will go further: Mr. Trump is precisely the kind of man our system of government was designed to avoid, the type of leader our founders feared — a demagogic figure who does not view himself as part of our constitutional system but rather as an alternative to it.
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Seeing the effects of how fake news may have influenced the U.S. election to favor a demagogic populist like Donald Trump, there is huge concern in German political circles about the potential influence fake news and hate speech could have on the country's federal elections later this year.
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"As a member of the LGBT community, I'm here to say that whether you are Muslim, whether you are Latino or Latina, an immigrant or a refugee or anybody else whose been antagonized by this demagogic tyrant, we have your back," said New York City Councilman Corey Johnson.
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William Sullivan, then-head of the FBI's domestic intelligence division, wrote in a 1963 memo: Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands heads and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes.
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Washington (CNN)Newt Gingrich on Thursday defended Donald Trump's controversial tweet about Hillary Clinton featuring the Star of David over a field of money, telling CNN there was nothing anti-Semitic about the image and that the recent uproar was an "absurd" and "demagogic" attack orchestrated by the media.
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Rooted in time-tested American racism, the demagogic apparatus Trump wielded against the "caravan" during the midterms was designed to set one exploited population, the white working class, against another, the refugees escaping a history of violence and oppression stemming from decades of US support for Latin American dictatorships.
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Still, Bloomberg used his no-campaign announcement to take a swipe at Trump — who leads the GOP delegate count — saying his fellow New York businessman "has run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people's prejudices and fears." for the latest on the markets.
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The novel is about a Vermont newspaper editor, Doremus Jessup, who opposes a demagogic presidential candidate, Berzelius Windrip; it is a satirical and melodramatic cautionary tale, in which Mr. Windrip wins the election, imposes martial law and seizes control of newspapers; his regime arrests and even kills his critics.
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How can Western leaders learn or even be inspired by anti-liberal sentiments the same way as Roosevelt, Adenauer or Monnet when today's Trumps, Johnsons, and Le Pens not only reject the liberal ideas of our founding fathers but seem to only offer demagogic resentments and xenophobic sentiments?
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The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin recalled that the "aroused demagogic fear" after Pearl Harbor had led to the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II — something Mr. Trump has said that, while he hated the idea, he might have supported at the time.
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The bankruptcy battles continued, and when Warren testified against the proposed changes to the bankruptcy code before the Senate in 2005, Biden called her argument "very compelling and mildly demagogic," suggesting that her problem was really with the high interest rates that credit-card companies were allowed to charge.
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" The Economist refers to a "populist virus"; The Atlantic, to "demagogic populists"; The Washington Post, to "populism sweeping the Middle East"; The New York Times, to a "Kurdish populist movement" and a Thai "populist movement"; the BBC, to the Catalan national movement as "far less about separatism than populism.
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For reasons of ineptitude and ideological complicity, the party's leaders did almost nothing to counter the Trump phenomenon, nor did they seek in any sustained fashion to temper his worst excesses, beginning with his false claims about President Barack Obama's birth and proceeding onward through his demagogic Inaugural Address.
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By then, the operator could do no wrong at home, and his gauntlet was taken up by pastors, hunters, good ol' boys, and stars of reality shows like Duck Dynasty, whose beards mixed easily with their demagogic condemnations of American cultural decadence, even as they hawked their branded outdoor gear.
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The politicians' failure to allow necessary reforms has meant, over the past quarter of a century, the demagogic and aimless premierships of Silvio Berlusconi, the floundering of center-left governments, reformist but continually undercut from within their own ranks, and technocratic governments with no popular base and thus limited leverage.
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Charles M. Blow On Friday, I watched yet another bizarre scene from an already bizarre election cycle: The affable but hopelessly vacant Ben Carson endorsing the demagogic real estate developer who once said of Carson that he had a "pathological temper" as a child and compared him to a child molester.
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In reality, there is no serious prospect whatever of Turkey joining the EU, now or "in the long term," but, by saying that, Cameron opened a space for the Leave campaign to claim in demagogic and xenophobic fashion that hordes of Turkish immigrants would soon descend on England's green and pleasant land.
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In its recounting of the events that led to Hitler's rise, there are unavoidable parallels with the present moment, from a devastating recession that undermined public faith in state institutions and demanded scapegoats, to the widespread hunger for a demagogic leader "who said things the way they were," as Knausgaard puts it.
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They understand that not voting at all, or throwing their votes away on third-party candidates who can't win, will not accomplish their ultimate objective: not only to defeat Trump, but to defeat him so decisively that his brand of hateful and demagogic politics will never gain the Republican nomination for generations to come.
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It's true that after almost 17 years in power as president or prime minister, Mr. Putin enjoys an astounding approval rating hovering around 80 percent — founded in part on his demagogic claims to be standing up to a United States that he accuses of engineering all Russia's woes and thus restoring Russia's imperial greatness.
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It's a fascinating document, springing from a kind of funhouse-mirror world of Republican politics—one in which Ryan's disingenuous brand of think tank conservatism has won out over Trump's demagogic dog whistles, and where Republican congressmen are running for re-election on the roaring economy rather than a caravan of migrant asylum-seekers.
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They Republicans understand that not voting at all, or throwing their votes away on third-party candidates who can't win, will not accomplish their ultimate objective: not only to defeat Trump, but to defeat him so decisively that his brand of hateful and demagogic politics will never gain the Republican nomination for generations to come.
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Yet while his astonishing election and often demagogic politics have accelerated the rise of the left, energizing a new generation of progressives and socialists, Mr. Trump's presidency has also enlarged the moderate wing of the party, creating a slice of de facto Democrats among the Republicans and right-leaning independents who cannot abide him.
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I didn't know that number until I looked it up, because it would have been unimaginable for that president — even though he could be quite demagogic — to brandish it as proof that he represented some quasi-mystical conception of "the people," in contrast to the nearly 51 million citizens who voted for his opponent.
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It has been lumped together with President-elect Donald Trump's victory; Brexit, when the British voted to leave the European Union; the upsurge of extreme right-wing, anti-European or racist political parties; and "populism," which in much of the media seems to be code for demagogic politicians persuading ignorant masses to vote for stupid things.
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While the hearing was painful, we learned that the biased Mueller team attacked Republicans while protecting Democrats, knew fairly early that there was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russians to interfere with the 28503 election, and perhaps most importantly, that Mr. Mueller was probably a figurehead and not an active manager of the demagogic probe.
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Although he could be brutally demagogic when running for office—aside from the racist "Willie Horton" ad released by his allies, Bush's 1988 campaign relied on the portrayal of Bush as a true American who loved the Pledge of Allegiance, as opposed to the unpatriotic "Greek" Michael Dukakis—Bush was an institutionalist who tried to make government work.
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But by then, with the Trump administration in full swing, he agreed that the parallels between the world he invented and what was happening in contemporary America were hard to ignore: a demagogic president who openly expresses admiration for a foreign dictator; a surge of right-wing nationalism and isolationism; polarization; false narratives; xenophobia and the demonization of others.
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"If you look beyond the demagogic 'aggressiveness and territory annexation of Russia,' then it is evident that one of the biggest obstacles [to that deal] is the U.S. missile defense program, and subsequent U.S. attempts to ensure superiority in other areas – development of NATO's infrastructure, basic armament, precision weaponry, drones and the militarization of space," said Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev.
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See the NSA-style surveillance capabilities Batman develops in The Dark Night that just might be necessary to stop Heath Ledger's Joker (a villain so much more charismatic than his adversary it was hard not to root for him), or the way Hardy's demagogic Bane in The Dark Knight Rises coopts a streetside uprising that bore a suspicious resemblance to the Occupy movement.
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George W. Bush did an excellent job of emphasizing that violent Islamist terrorism is a fringe movement within Islam and does not speak for the religion as a whole or for its billion-plus followers worldwide, including those in the US. That was crucial after 9/11, a time when a more demagogic leader could've whipped up racial animus and scapegoated American Muslims.
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No one has captured Kennedy's 1968 race with as much visceral immediacy as Thurston Clarke did in "The Last Campaign" (2008), but Larry Tye's absorbing new biography, "Bobby Kennedy," does a compelling job of showing how a tough-guy counsel to the red-baiting, demagogic Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s became, in the next decade, "a liberal icon" beloved for his dedication to the poor and disenfranchised.
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All that is in doubt is whether the final destination is one that Ronald Reagan might have saluted—a country of low taxes, light regulation and free markets, in which individuals and businesses are free to seek prosperity with a minimum of government involvement—or a more nationalist, populist and even statist place, with questions of law, order, identity and cultural tradition playing a role that demagogic European politicians might both recognise and applaud.
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"Above and beyond all that, the thing that disturbs me most about Trump is his demagogic desire to divide this country up based on the color of our skin or the country that we came from or our sexual orientation or our religion or our gender," Sanders said at the We the People Summit, a progressive conference in Washington, D.C., where a handful of possible Democratic presidential contenders were slated to speak.
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"This is not because we don't believe that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has been engaged in a cynical, demagogic and unfair assault on our industry," editorial page editor Nicholas Goldberg wrote early Thursday morning.
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Look at Trump's doom-and-gloom convention speech replete with demagogic fear-mongering and lies; or his erratic press conference the next day where he re-upped the baseless conspiracy theory that Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE's father was involved in the JFK assassination.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I) blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's "demagogic desire to divide this country" as he spoke on Wednesday to a group of progressives amid rampant speculation that he's gearing up for a bid against Trump in 2020.
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In answering this question, Lloyd hits the highlights of D'Souza's colorful career: his student days at Dartmouth College where he pioneered a form of right-wing tom foolery, his bid to be a serious journalist writing about political correctness in his book Illiberal Education (1991), his overt hostility towards African-Americans displayed in his book The End of Racism (1995), his move towards a more popular audience in demagogic documentaries and polemics such as The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), his scandal-plagued tenure as president of King's College, the extramarital affair which ended his first marriage and also entangled him in an campaign finance violation which led to becoming a convicted felon in 2014, his dubious redemption by a politically motivated pardon from President Donald Trump, and his current status as one of Trump's foremost advocates.
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