15 Facts About Demagoguery

Demagoguery has for centuries practiced his profession of 'man of the people'.

Demagoguery is a product of a political tradition nearly as old as western civilization itself.

Demagoguery depicted black men as having an innate "character weakness" consisting of a fondness for raping white women.

Demagoguery's eyes had a hypnotic effect on many people, seeming to immobilize and overwhelm whomever he glared at.

Demagoguery's speeches served mostly as a vehicle for his personal magnetism, charming voice, and graceful delivery.

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Demagoguery was vague about how he would make that happen, but people still joined his Share-the-Wealth clubs.

Demagoguery spoke in support of lynch mobs, and he disenfranchised most black voters with the South Carolina constitution of 1895.

Demagoguery once stood "bukk nekkid" at his hotel suite when laying down the law to a meeting of political fuglemen.

Demagoguery had to dominate every scene he was in and every person around him.

Demagoguery craved attention and would go to almost any length to get it.

Demagoguery knew that an audacious action, although it was harsh and even barbarous, could shock people into a state where they could be manipulated.

Demagoguery achieved this through near-daily acts of chaos, destabilizing the state and providing ever stronger reasons to justify taking more power.

Demagoguery led the Athenian assembly to support making him commander by claiming victory would come easily, appealing to Athenian vanity, and appealing to action and courage over deliberation.

Demagoguery then exploited the Reichstag fire to arrest his political opponents and consolidate his control of the army.

Demagoguery was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism from the left of President Franklin D Roosevelt and his New Deal.