Opinion There’s a better term for Trump than ‘fascist’: He’s a demagogue. - "Originally, demagogue (dēmagōgós, literally “leader of the people”), signified a political type in Greek democracy who rallied nonelite voters to the support of causes by appealing to class prejudices and resentments. Only after decades of observation did political philosophers begin to catalogue the extraordinary dangers posed by this type.
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"Modern academics have refined the term. In his 1954 book 'American Demagogues,' historian Reinhard Luthin defined a demagogue as 'a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices — a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses.'"
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