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What is a demagogue?

Last updated on: March 2, 2016 at 8:06 am by Dan Peterson

Mr. Mencken of Baltimore — H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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“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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