If Democrats are going to respond effectively to Trump's mass-deportations stance and all-around immigration demagoguery, they'll need clear, solid answers to all of these questions.
Posers like David Brooks and Michael Gerson and the rest are no better at discerning the rank hypocrisy and demagoguery dripping all around us than any of the other shills for the 1percentt who defile our airwaves.
Anybody who suggests that the nation's wealth should be more equitably spread around is drowned in demagoguery.
"At a time like this, when the forces of xenophobia and demagoguery are being trumpeted around the world and seek to erode what we hold most dear, we have to remember who we are as Australians and Americans and reflect our best selves back to the world".
The insurgencies of our time, including Brexit and the rise of the European far right, have many local causes – but it is not an accident that demagoguery appears to be rising around the world.
Last night Mr. Edwards persisted in some lines of criticism that we consider to be unsupported demagoguery, in particular hints of misconduct swirling around Mr. Cheney and Halliburton Co.
He has on occasion tip toed around Trump's most wretched anti-Muslim demagoguery.
Rather than make the decision with competing, hyperbolic claims clanging around the airwaves, and suffering the residual demagoguery, the president should bring us all in on the decision-making process.
And, of course, the root causes of the shocking result are lessons we need to quickly learn in the United States and around the world about economic justice, xenophobia and demagoguery.
In 2006, they staged similar demonstrations that helped bring down the similarly detested but democratically elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatr the "Asian Berlusconi," as he is dubbed, who had enraged educated opinion with his naked media demagoguery (like Berlusconi, he owned a few TV stations and threw his weight around).
