Introduction: demagogues and demagoguery -- Invasion of Iraq and the evasion of policy deliberation -- Punishment/reward and binary paired terms -- Scapegoating and rationality markers -- When the choir claims to have been converted -- Anti-intellectualism and the appeal to expert opinion.
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"Through a series of case studies, Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way that people participate in public discourse, not necessarily populist and not necessarily heavily emotional. Demagoguery, she contents, depoliticizes political argument by making all issues into questions of identity"--