rabble-rouser
Stirs up trouble
A rabble-rouser is someone who stirs up crowds through inflammatory speech, appealing to emotions and prejudices rather than reason.
The term is usually critical, suggesting the person exploits popular grievances for personal gain or causes trouble: The senator dismissed the activist as a rabble-rouser.
To rabble-rouse is to engage in such agitation.
One who provokes action
- firebrandAgitator or burning stick
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- inciterOne who provokes action
- fomenterOne who incites trouble
troublemaker · provocateur · stirrer · pot-stirrer · ringleader · hothead · bomb-thrower · hatemonger
Root-indicating symbol
- rebelAuthority defier
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
- insurgentOne who revolts
anarchist · militant · seditionist · insurrectionist · revolutionary · counterculture · resistance · underground
One who advocates publicly
- organizerArrangement tool or person
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- crusaderZealous advocate for change
- reformerAgent of institutional improvement
demonstrator · protester · marcher · grassroots · picket · boycotter · petitioner · lobbyist
Tending to provoke outrage
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- seditiousInciting rebellion against state
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- polemicalStrongly attacking opposing views
divisive · contentious · antagonistic · bombastic · demagoguery · populist · sloganeering · speechifying
instigator
One who provokes action
- firebrandAgitator or burning stick
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- inciterOne who provokes action
fomenter · troublemaker · provocateur · stirrer · pot-stirrer · ringleader · hothead · bomb-thrower · hatemonger · fearmonger
radical
Root-indicating symbol
- rebelAuthority defier
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
insurgent · anarchist · militant · seditionist · insurrectionist · revolutionary · counterculture · resistance · underground · guerrilla
campaigner
One who advocates publicly
- organizerArrangement tool or person
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- crusaderZealous advocate for change
reformer · demonstrator · protester · marcher · grassroots · picket · boycotter · petitioner · lobbyist · environmentalist
inflammatory
Tending to provoke outrage
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- seditiousInciting rebellion against state
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
polemical · divisive · contentious · antagonistic · bombastic · demagoguery · populist · sloganeering · speechifying · grandstanding
- persuaderspersuader, orator, orators, public speaker, speechmaker
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- troublemakingtroublemaker, troublemaking, instigate, agitator, instigating
- talkerstalker, chatterbox, motormouth, motor-mouth, loudmouth
- populismpopulism, demagogue, demagoguery, anti-elitism, anti-establishment
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
rabble-rouserpeacemaker
Conflict resolution agent
reconciler · uniter · mediator · healer · bridge-builder
rabble-rouservoice of reason
rouse, arouse, rousing, aroused, arousing, rabble, roused, arouses, rabble-rousing