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TalkingDog
Mar 2016
OP
Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Mencken
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2016
#1
This would be more convincing if I didn't actually know anything about Donald Trump.
Donald Ian Rankin
Mar 2016
#4
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)1. Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Mencken
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)2. K&R
Serious words.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)3. Yes indeed.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)4. This would be more convincing if I didn't actually know anything about Donald Trump.
Trump's rise is partly down to political frustration, economic stagnation and social decay, but a large part of it is down to good old-fashioned xenophobic populism and strong-man rhetoric.
So the metaphor doesn't really point in the direction she wants it to, I think.