0 a person, especially a political leader, who wins support by exciting the emotions of ordinary people rather than by having good or morally right ideas
1 a person, esp. a political leader, who wins support by exciting people’s emotions rather than giving them reasons
Beware of the demagogue in whatever guise he presents himself.
The Free People of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.
The story of the carriage was told, and he was declared to be a turbulent demagogue, only desirous of getting popularity.
Consequently, parastates shunned electoral politics because of its domination by corrupt demagogues and condemned legislatures for their parochialism.
Here, the system would redirect the natural sentiment to attach to close objects (like local demagogues) towards the more distant union.
The roles that bioethicists occupy in the public field can be crudely characterized as the following: demagogues, firefighters, window dressers, and academics.
