But if there are lessons to be learnt, they should discourage our politicians from repeating those outmoded forms of political propaganda and demagoguery.
Our post-modern society has basically caused a generation to form their views based on feelings, which has made them susceptible to demagoguery and emotional manipulation.
He eschewed demagoguery and rejected collectivized criminalization of nations, races or religion, even when it would have been convenient and politically corrected to do so.
His public appearances during the campaign, far from brutally honest, were larded with dissembling, prevarication and demagoguery, empty catchphrases and scripted one-liners.