demagoguery

• Instead, populist and ignorant demagoguery are the rules-of-the-day: class envy of richer vs. poorer, demonizing corporations, victimhood of minority groups. —  BusinessWeek.com --
• As a sports fan, I am proud to note as an aside that the only network ever to call His Corpulence out on his demagoguery is ESPN. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• In a current age when conservatives rightly bemoan the quasi-European instincts of the current occupant of the Oval Office, Huey Long's passion for forceable wealth distribution and populist demagoguery is a stark reminder that true unfettered Socialism is more than trillion dollar deficits and semi-nationalized banking. —  Truth v. The Machine
• By demagoguery, the founders did not mean merely the fomenting of class envy, or harsh, angry appeals to regressive forces; they also had in mind the softer, more artful designs of a Pericles or a Caesar, who appealed to hopeful expectations, "those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle" (Federalist 68). —  Claremont.org
• Perhaps it's just that I've been more exposed to this election than previous ones so don't know this is just "how it's done", but as someone with a great deal of affection and respect for the US, the Manichaean terms in which both sides express themselves - in a way that goes far beyond "demagoguery" - alarms me. —  The Boar's Head Tavern

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