demagog


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a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

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The turning point came in February 1897, when the National Education Association (NEA) resolved that all of its official correspondence and publications would thenceforth use simplified spellings for twelve words: catalog, decalog, demagog, pedagog, prolog, program, tho, altho, thoro, thorofare, thru, and thruout.
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Taking advantage of this dangerous mood, an Austrian-born German demagog, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), was bringing the National Socialist (Nazi) party to the fore by capitalizing on the discontent of the middle classes and using anti-Semitism to give them an outlet for their anger.
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