Example sentences for: demagoguery

How can you use “demagoguery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Primary Colors rejects the smarmy populist demagoguery of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . Instead, it shows how politics is about choosing between imperfect, morally compromising options.

  • Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue.

  • In '90s Washington, as in '20s Boston, the voters who fall for this type of demagoguery are ultimately the ones at fault.

  • Buchanan is a kind of fascist fellow traveler, who dabbles in an anachronistic style of populist demagoguery that points to cosmopolitan Jews, and to a lesser extent nonwhite immigrants, as the source of the country's problems.

  • The term limits craze makes a nice case study in political demagoguery.


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