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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H. L. Mencken
Men, Cynical, Doctrine
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.