What is a demagogue?

Last updated on: March 2, 2016 at 8:06 am
March 2, 2016 by
What is a demagogue? March 2, 2016

 

Mr. Mencken of Baltimore
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Wikimedia Commons

 

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

H. L. Mencken

 

 

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