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  • These young U.S. citizens were especially incensed at the real possibility that the land they have always called home could now become a battlefield where loved ones, their parents in particular, could be criminalized, displaced, uprooted with the stroke of a demagogue's pen.

    Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

  • These young U.S. citizens were especially incensed at the real possibility that the land they have always called home could now become a battlefield where loved ones, their parents in particular, could be criminalized, displaced, uprooted with the stroke of a demagogue's pen.

    Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

  • Her refusal to simply exonerate herself was read as a sign of guilt, rather than for what it was: a continuation of her life's work of intense self-interrogation and reflection, in which one must "execute the verdict oneself" – as she wrote in her most important work, Nachdenken über Christa T The Quest for Christa T, 1968 – rather than succumb to the demagogue's version of events.

    Christa Wolf obituary 2011

  • These young U.S. citizens were especially incensed at the real possibility that the land they have always called home could now become a battlefield where loved ones, their parents in particular, could be criminalized, displaced, uprooted with the stroke of a demagogue's pen.

    Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011

  • The Great Recession's forced idleness on millions of people make the demagogue's job easy to excite the passions of the mob.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Recession Is Over! (If You Want It) Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • The Great Recession's forced idleness on millions of people make the demagogue's job easy to excite the passions of the mob.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Recession Is Over! (If You Want It) 2010

  • Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partyers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."

    Glenn Beck's Message: It Is Happening Here 2010

  • The Great Recession's forced idleness on millions of people make the demagogue's job easy to excite the passions of the mob.

    Joseph A. Palermo: Recession Is Over! (If You Want It) 2010

  • The resolution is a demagogue's dream of bogus collective security.

    David Bromwich: One More War, Please 2010

  • Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partyers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."

    David Sirota: Glenn Beck's Message: It Is Happening Here 2010

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