Unfortunately feeling is much easier than thinking, and it's easier to elicit negative feelings than positive ones. Thus demagogues have an almost unavoidable p

Unfortunately feeling is much easier than thinking, and it's easier to elicit negative feelings than positive ones. Thus demagogues have an almost unavoidable path to success: scare people, promise to make them feel safer, watch them cling to you, repeat. As long as humans don't keep our instincts subordinated to reason, this will keep happening, it's in our nature.