Jonathan Hoffman, a law professor and military prosecutor who worked in George W. Bush's White House, said that Republicans need to "stop vilifying the opponents" and "stop telling people how to live," and instead focus on providing opportunities for everyone to live as they choose.
Mr Samaraweera describes the former president as "vilifying" the West as a form of "hysterical nationalism to command" the vote of the ethnic Sinhalese majority, despite the fact that Western powers helped to crack down on international funding and support for the Tamil Tiger separatists towards the end of the war.
It is hard-hitting but even-handed, neither vilifying all Parisians as collaborators nor glorifying the courage of a few.
After Mr Kagame and his fellow Tutsi exiles first entered the country in 1990, the Hutu elite began vilifying all Tutsis, and softening up the Hutu masses for the genocide to come.
The state-controlled press is still vilifying the Dalai Lama and the authorities have maintained a tight grip on Tibetan regions.
Troops were given newspapers vilifying Parisians as traitors and degenerates.
Vilifying Labour as defeatist leftists during the campaign, and then enlisting them as a "moderating" influence in government, would be no surprise.Boosted by his victory, Mr Netanyahu should be able to overcome the resistance of his devotees and the resentment of senior figures wanting ministerial jobs.
It champions Muslim unity but creates division by vilifying pro-Western Muslim rulers, backing Shia factions and expecting Shias everywhere to bow to Mr Khamenei's authority.Earlier this month, Iran's foreign minister announced an initiative for a wide-ranging dialogue with the UN Security Council, which has imposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Quietly changing tack, they stopped vilifying their most vociferous opponents as "counter-revolutionaries".
In recent months he has been promoting himself ferociously, granting long television interviews and vilifying the FBI; he has also hinted of having a baby with Candy.
As was later remarked, it was as if the American press were vilifying Richard Nixon and Aristotle.
