The Demagogue’s Spell (And How to Break It)
Seven Lessons About Demagoguery We Still Haven’t Learned
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5 min readJan 11, 2018
I see it every day, now, more and more. Demagogues are hijacking the minds of entire societies — whether in America, Britain, Poland, Hungary, Germany. It’s remarkable that we still haven’t really understood how they do, so let me explain how it works.