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Demagogic hate-monger seems a little strong.
by potatoman2 10y ago
Demagogic hate-monger seems a little strong.
- anotherhacker 10y agoIt's also redundant. Demagogs === hate-mongers.
- anotherhacker 10y agoSomeone downvoted my response. Perhaps because they think that they are not the same thing...I suggest looking at the definition of Demagog a little bit more. "synonyms:rabble-rouser, agitator, political agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand, fomenter, provocateur" A Demagog is someone who uses hate to bring attention to themselves. Would you call Mahatma Gandhi a demagog? Nope.
- diyorgasms 10y agoIf anything, I'd call that a charitable description, and definitely not as strongly worded as most would write.
- v64 10y agodemagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument hatemonger: a person who kindles hatred, enmity, or prejudice in others "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." "In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before -- as a group, we have never seen before, what's happening right now. The medieval times -- I mean, we studied medieval times -- not since medieval times have people seen what's going on. I would bring back waterboarding and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding." "I think Islam hates us. There's a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us." I would say demagogic hatemonger is a perfectly accurate description of Donald Trump.
- siegecraft 10y agoAre there any non-demagogue politicians, then? Successful ones, I mean.
- fake-name 10y agoI really hope you're taking issue with some subtle issue with the phrasing, rather then the intent. With regard to the intent, I think it's too weak, if anything. "Sociopathic demagogic hate-monger", maybe.
- nanny 10y agoAnd personally I usually throw in "fascist" for good measure.
- GavinMcG 10y agoHardly. Demagoguery appeals to people's emotions and prejudices, rather than rational argument. There can be no doubt that Trump takes exactly such an approach. And he has vocally encouraged violence and identified specific groups to serve as targets, based on race and religion. That description is entirely apt.
- tomjen3 10y agoIf you are going to use that description, it will apply to every politician with modest success, however it is not what is commonly thought of as a demagogue, probably because something that applies to almost everybody is a meaningless adjective.
- GavinMcG 10y agoEncouraging violence? Appealing to emotion I'll grant – though not typically as exclusively as Trump has – but appealing to prejudice? Not seeing it.
- xlm1717 10y agoAlong with the lazy Nazi comparisons.