Musabayov noted Azerbaijan and the world are not expecting
demagogy from Pashinyan, but concrete words and actions on those proposals that have long been on the table of negotiations.
Demagogy in our modern age is in and of itself a root cause of many of the social ills which it pretentiously and deceitfully promises to cure.
This explains their hostility to populism, which they associate with
demagogy and irrationality.
In today's world, democracies continue to fall victims to
demagogy. The election of Donald Trump in the US which divided the American society, pitted the superpower into costly trade wars against its major trading partners and poisoned the relationship with its allies, is a good example.
To see Chavez at his basestto appreciate
demagogy at its lowest, in a version deeper than anything even Donald Trump has attemptedto appreciate, in short, Mussoliniyou should take a moment to watch a video of Chavez ranting, "I am no longer me, I am a people," to an enormous crowd of flag-waving Venezuelans, with oratorical flourishes invoking "love" and "socialism" and "Christianity" in palpitating vibrato.
'But, as German political theorist Hannah Arendt said, to paraphrase it, if someone dealing with a certain subject constantly engages in
demagogy achieves some success, it is more likely that they will become the victim of their own fabrication.
In the Weimar, Hitler's
demagogy moved even the intelligentsia, wounded by the humiliating Treaty of Versailles.
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's decision to exit the coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union is short-sighted, and their argumentation is based on
demagogy, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
Our aim is to appeal to reason, to lift our pens above the cringing
demagogy of the times, and above the cheap peanut politics of the old reactionary Negro leaders.
This does have something to do with education -- not because well-educated people are immune to
demagogy, but because a broken education system leaves too many people at a disadvantage.
Through bluster and
demagogy, populist politicians are turning back the clock to a pre-empirical world, in which superstition and obscurantism were apparently better for everyone.
Similar concerns were clearly on a slow boil in the US until the
demagogy of the Republican Party's presidential candidates unleashed an ugly wave of public anger.
