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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of demagogue.

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Examples

  • To those who "demagogued this case for their own political goals: You should be ashamed of yourselves," he wrote.

    Prayer Case at School Is Settled Nathan Koppel 2012

  • Because what has happened--it does get demagogued.

    FAIR Thee Well? 2011

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

  • Instead, he delivered a non-controversial speech that was demagogued by right-wing conservatives.

    Obama delivers controversial school speech 2009

  • So, to summarize, your evidence that canada has an inferior society is based on a largely false and overly demagogued piece of information.

    Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

  • Just last year, after Democrats passed a health care law that cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare over the objections of House Democrats, who would instead have had the wealthiest Americans pick up the tab for subsidizing health care for workers their friends pay too poorly to afford it, Republicans all over the country demagogued the issue and ran against Democrats for "trying to take away your Medicare."

    Drew Westen: Three Ways Democrats Could Choose to Lose in 2012, and What They Can Do to Avoid It Drew Westen 2011

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