Demagogues

Social conflicts are the icing on the cake for demagogues.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

All the old despots were demagogues; at least, they were demagogues whenever they were really trying to please or impress the demos. If they poured out beer for their vassals it was because both they and their vassals had a taste for beer. If (in some slightly different mood) they poured melted lead on their vassals, it was because both they and their vassals had a strong distaste for melted lead.

Using salient exemplars, demagogues are able to spread the false impression that minority groups are more dangerous than they are.

I don't think George Soros is a good person, or that his money was earned (nor any billionaire's for that matter), but he gains the ire of demagogues by funding organizations that call attention to injustice.

She has answered, France has answered, in thunderings articulate, / From the Alps and either Seaboard, to the Pyrenees, the Rhine; / And though a horde of demagogues may bellow and gesticulate, / They know this is a victory of the PEOPLE'S RIGHT DIVINE.