Example sentences for: demagoguery

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

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

  • 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.

  • Or is it just brain-dead demagoguery?

  • 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.

  • Cheap Republican partisanship would bring out the worst in the Democrats, encouraging more symbolic "therapeutic legislation" (see my colleague Jack Shafer's "Flame Posies" column) and demagoguery intended to keep old people in a Republican-hating frenzy.


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