Synonyms for demagogue
ˈdɛm əˌgɒg, -ˌgɔgdem·a·gogue

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1. demagogue, demagog, rabble-rousernoun

   a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

   Synonyms:
   demagog, rabble-rouser

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1. demagoguenoun

   Synonyms:
   ringleader of the populace, factious leader, popular agitator

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1. Michael Signer:

   Despite his prior glitzy image, Trump started becoming a demagogue when he started trying to lead a 'silent majority' of furious, mostly white, lower- and middle-class voters, and he really crossed the line when he started doubling down on deceits like the lie about 'thousands' of people celebrating 9/11 in Jersey City, countenancing violence, demonizing large swaths of people, and now, casting aside the freedom of religion for Muslims.

2. Vargas Llosa:

   He is a danger to the United States, it is a country that is too important for the rest of the world to have in the White House a clown, a demagogue and a racist like Mr Trump.

3. Bruce Kovner:

   He is a dangerous demagogue completely unsuited to the responsibilities of a United States president, even for loyalists, there is a line beyond which the obvious moral failings of a candidate are impossible to disregard. That line has been clearly breached.

4. Vargas Llosa:

   It is a country that is too important for the rest of the world to have in the White House a clown, a demagogue and a racist like Mr Trump.

5. Ron DeSantis:

   Our Department of Education looked at that and said: In Florida, we do education not indoctrination, and so that runs afoul of our standards, we were just the only ones that had the backbone to stand up and do it – because they call you names and they demagogue you when you do it.