Horace Greeley Quotes

… becoming a very dangerous proposition…. an out and out demagogue

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

Unfortunately in this country we now have a demagogue ... one that is reckless with the truth.

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.

You never discount a demagogue.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

Populism is dangerous.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Moderates behind whom Red Fascism spreads.

I wish I could send some of my shock troops to Chicago and other big American cities to help in the elections. We look on Heinrich Ford as the leader of the growing fascist movement in America. We admire particularly his anti-Jewish policy which is the Bavarian fascist platform.

The demagogue ... is a good showman, whether at Nuremberg at a youth conference, or in Georgia at a political barbecue. He knows the tricks of the ham actor, the gestures, the tones of voice that can arouse passions. Always he dresses himself up as the little man come to life, grown to Brobdingnagian stature and become the "Duce" or the "Leader" or, maybe, "Ploughboy Pete.

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

A fascist helping defeatism

a jackbooted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today.

Demagogues are the mob's lackeys.

An extreme reflection of the dangers confronting modern social development is the growth of racism, nationalism, and militarism and, in particular, the rise of demagogic, hypocritical, and monstrously cruel dictatorial police regimes…. These tragic developments have always derived from the struggle of egotistical and group interests, the struggle for unlimited power, suppression of intellectual freedom, a spread of intellectually simplified, narrow-minded mass myths.

Of course there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

We have to challenge head-on the way the BNP takes legitimate concerns and manipulates them in the interests of its fascist agenda.

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.