Mattis had gone along with Trump's ridiculous pre-election deployment of troops to the U.S. border with Mexico — a transparent ploy to stoke fervor among his base.
In the past, Greek leftists have used a caricature of American capitalism to stoke fervor against free-market democracy.
He stokes nationalist fervor and racial resentments.
To rally its base, the party often relies on hate marches and intimidation campaigns that stoke racist fervor.
And it has stoked Democratic fervor on the question of whether Republicans, dominated by Protestants, are insensitive to Catholics.
The media law has become a symbol for wider worries about the drift of politics in Hungary — where critics say Mr. Orban has stoked nationalist fervor and consolidated power.
"I probably stoked fan fervor in my optimistic comments about the prospects," Mr. Thomas wrote, adding that Warner Brothers, which owns the "Veronica Mars" property, "wasn't convinced there was enough interest to warrant a major studio-sized movie about Veronica, and the project never got off the ground".
Crazy-talk aside, leaders and ambitious figures have used body-language, verbal cadence, mild hypnosis, expressions of emotion and symbolism to stoke the fervor of groups of people for generations, from the steps of the Athenian acropolis to the locker rooms of high school football teams.
This sense of heightened insecurity was further aggravated by ideological Israeli and Palestinian leaders that made little or no effort to correct these perceptions, deciding instead to stoke nationalist fervor and angst against the "Other".
Trump has repeatedly faced a conflict between the president's traditional role as a national unifier and his political strategy, which focuses intensely on using battles over identity and culture to stoke the fervor of his core supporters.
"In music, familiar songs, some made famous by the blackface minstrel stars of the day, offered courage and consolation, but in a new, and sometimes grueling, emotional key.... Brand new songs, which were sometimes rewritten versions of old ones, stoked patriotic fervor and recorded terrible battles, while they registered the range of feelings from anguish to triumphant glee.
