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Synonyms for rabble-rouser

a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

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Rabble-rousers lean heavily on punitive measures that reinforce individual and community divisions.
He added that Imran should not turn the celebration into a day of agitation and urged him and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri to be careful of "rabble-rousers" such as Pervez Illahi and "gossip-mongers" such as Sheikh Rashid.
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers. Chicago Review Press, 2013.
"RABBLE-ROUSERS" But while Merkel has high popularity ratings, not everyone is convinced.
The veteran rock rabble-rousers played Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, their debut appearance at the country's most prestigious rock music event.
Indie outfit Russian Gun Dogs, metal band English of the Sixth and acoustic rabble-rousers Barricades Rise will also play the gig, which starts at 7.30pm and is PS4 to enter.
Even assuming that some of the other parties harbor dishonest goals or the desire to thwart the President's efforts and the experience of the Islamists in power, and even assuming that some of those throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails are rabble-rousers and paid thugs, the responsibility here falls to a greater degree on those who have allowed for such a climate, which has given opportunists and rabble-rousers the opportunity to leap to the forefront of the scene.
The best laugh our party had was the appearance of Ed Miliband pictured with our red radical rabble-rousers.
"If those rabble-rousers and hooligans had imagined the horror of chaos and destruction they were making, they would not have committed those crimes," Al-Hudhaifi said, expressing his disgust at the rioters' use of motorcycles and petrol bombs to terrorize local people.
Exactly the sentiment needed to tackle today''s would-be looters and rabble-rousers, as well as hardened criminals spawned on Godfather movies, who believe they are immune to justice.
Creative community organizing; a guide for rabble-rousers, activists and quiet lovers of justice.
Authorities had banned the Internet after it was discovered that separatists and rabble-rousers had used the Internet, phone calls and text messages to spread havoc.