#share#Indeed, it’s in the realm of foreign policy that Obama’s demagoguery has peaked. In August, he compared opponents of the Iran deal — an agreement that doesn’t halt Iran’s nuclear ...
We often hear that the reason for adopting the Constitution was to limit the powers of the national government. As a matter of historical accuracy, this is wrong. We already had a national ...
The last debate among 10 Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for president set a new low for demagoguery, contempt for America, and just plain foolishness. Here are some examples ...
What is demagoguery? In Ancient Greece, demagogue literally meant a leader of the people. Over the centuries, the meaning changed and has come to represent a person who appeals to greed ...
That, however, doesn’t lend itself to effective demagoguery. Caplan’s argument for “Pragmatic Pacifism” applies his analysis of demagoguery and incentives to warfare. Many arguments for ...
The theory that many Democrats will be tempted to adopt is that a nation prone to racism, sexism, xenophobia and rank stupidity fell prey to the type of demagoguery that once beguiled Germany into ...
The New York Times has always charged Trump with demagoguery. Over the last several weeks, however, it has made Trump’s allegedly darkening rhetoric an obsessive theme. The Times’s lack of ...
It was once a meeting place for Founding Fathers who cautioned about the dangers of political demagoguery. It also was the site of the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, the first year of Donald ...
The editorial board also cited Hawley’s opposition to foreign aid sent to Ukraine, as well as his “unparalleled record of demagoguery on the Senate floor.” The House Select Committee to ...
And then on Sunday the president of the United States using a commencement address as a platform for abject demagoguery. He ...
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch pulled no punches with a damning assessment of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) as “quite possibly the ...
In a republican form of government, founded on the consent of the governed, the most dangerous impetus to an abuse of those increased powers, according to the Founders, is demagoguery. The word has ...