demagogracy

alternative demogogracy · alternative demagocracy

1. alternativeno pluralAlternative form of demagocracy.

   He saw, and I think I see, that there may be more republicanism in a monarchy than there is sometimes in a democracy, which may be only another name for demagogracy.

   1903, Charles Chauncey Binney, The Life of Horace Binney: With Selections from His Letters, page 381

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   The main religious problem of the Western world is, briefly, how to exchange demagogracy, disguised as democracy, for a non-hereditary aristocracy whose leaders will be inspired to choose rightly on every occasion , instead of blindly following authoritarian procedure.

   1948, Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, page 470

   “Semi-senile, horny-legged, cunning, indefatigable curmudgeonsof-the-sea, tail-baiting their hooks with the spoils of demagogracy, toiling endangered citizenries, political tinkers in the tangle of their griftnets.

   2002, J. Lilly, The Last Carnival, page 58