Over the years I had begun to think of him as a demagogue who'd struck it lucky, but in that moment, the silky fluency of his tone, combined with the sharpness of the glance he gave me was like a snake striking: and suddenly, like a new insight, it hit me that here was a dangerous old man.
He was neither populist nor demagogue.
American officials called him a monster, a demagogue, a fanatic.
And if electoral rules do not snare a would-be demagogue then mocking laughter probably will.
Yet when Republican grandees call Mr Cruz "wacko" and big-city papers call him a fact-twisting demagogue, his fans love him all the more.If Mr Cruz does seek the presidency in 2016, cool logic is against him.
The president of NYU, a likeable fellow, suggested that I was a demagogue.
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Worse, they will have a president pulling one way and a reform-minded prime minister and government tugging the other.Mr Meciar, a brutish demagogue who mauled freedoms and mucked up the economy during his five years in charge, will certainly get a lot of votes.
Ministers have long tried to smear Mr Hazare as corrupt, or as a demagogue set on subverting democracy by imposing a flawed anti-corruption ombudsman, or lokpal, to whom both prime minister and senior judges would be held accountable.
The classic demagogue, Mr Speight might yet be called upon to serve as a strongman in the belief that he could enforce Fijian unity.
While armed violence is at an ebb tide along the Karen border, a once-minor warlord is reconstructing himself as an effective demagogue.
