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demagogy
noun
(dem-a-gogue)
a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
demagogy
noun
(dem-a-gogue)
a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times
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demagogic
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populism
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rhetoric
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preaching
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popularity
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rabble-rousing
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sophistry
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jingoism
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opportunism
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mendacity
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xenophobia
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hypocrisy
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authoritarianism
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chauvinism
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obscurantism
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fascism
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deceit
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popularism
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bombast
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leftism
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sensationalism
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disinformation
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falsehood
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nativism
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doublespeak
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nationalism
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cynicism
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irrationality
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partisanship
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radicalism
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demonization
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thuggery
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sophism
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demagogism
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polemics
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reactionism
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ultranationalism
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russophobia
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revisionism
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illiberalism
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sloganeering
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judeophobia
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dogmatism
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messianism
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reformism
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roguery
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casuistry
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irrationalism
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statism
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tommyrot
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newspeak
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moralizing
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delegitimation
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bureaucratism
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triumphalism
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mobocracy
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pompousness
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dissimulation
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philistinism
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revanchism
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ingratiation
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appeasement
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francophobia
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parliamentarianism
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reductionism
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sanctimoniousness
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pusillanimity
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dilettantism
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obstructionism
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sentimentalism
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ethnocracy
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petty bourgeois
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jobbery
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tu quoque
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sophists
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venality
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legalism
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egotism
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revanchist
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unscrupulousness
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disingenuity
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monarchism
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falsifiers
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bolshevism
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propaganda
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subjectivism
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egoism
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complaisance
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alarmism
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liberalism
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zionism
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exclusionism
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ethnocentrism
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doubletalk
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dissembling
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imposture
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antisemitism
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utopianism
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tendentiousness
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subversiveness
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demagogy
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