rabble-rousers
Stirrers of crowds
Rabble-rousers are people who stir up crowds, especially by appealing to emotions or prejudices rather than reason.
The term is usually disapproving, suggesting demagoguery or irresponsible agitation: The mayor dismissed the protesters as rabble-rousers.
Sometimes used more neutrally for anyone who challenges authority or energizes public opinion.
Those who incite disturbance
- demagoguesPoliticians manipulating mass emotion
- activistsPeople working for causes
- provocateursThose who incite discord
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
firebrands · populists · revolutionaries · insurgents · radicals · subversives · organizers · instigators
Those who incite discord
- shock jocksOffensive radio personalities
- commentatorsThose who analyze publicly
- punditsExpert commentators on affairs
- influencersPeople with online sway
bloggers · podcasters · propagandists · tabloids · sensationalism · clickbait · viral content · hot takes
Those building worker collectives
- strikersThose who cease work
- picketersPeople protesting with signs
- shop stewardsElected workplace union officials
- labor activistsWorkplace rights advocates
Wobblies · syndicalists · wildcatters · rank-and-file · collective bargaining · walkouts · solidarity · industrial action
Proclaimers of sacred truth
- preachersClergy who deliver sermons
- evangelistsZealous advocates for causes
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
- hereticsRejectors of official doctrine
dissenters · revivalists · zealots · iconoclasts · schismatics · sectarians · Martin Luther · tent revivals
agitators
Those who incite disturbance
- demagoguesPoliticians manipulating mass emotion
- activistsPeople working for causes
- provocateursThose who incite discord
dissidents · firebrands · populists · revolutionaries · insurgents · radicals · subversives · organizers · instigators · campaigners
provocateurs
Those who incite discord
- shock jocksOffensive radio personalities
- commentatorsThose who analyze publicly
- punditsExpert commentators on affairs
influencers · bloggers · podcasters · propagandists · tabloids · sensationalism · clickbait · viral content · hot takes · polarization
union organizers
Those building worker collectives
- strikersThose who cease work
- picketersPeople protesting with signs
- shop stewardsElected workplace union officials
labor activists · Wobblies · syndicalists · wildcatters · rank-and-file · collective bargaining · walkouts · solidarity · industrial action · sit-ins
prophets
Proclaimers of sacred truth
- preachersClergy who deliver sermons
- evangelistsZealous advocates for causes
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
heretics · dissenters · revivalists · zealots · iconoclasts · schismatics · sectarians · Martin Luther · tent revivals · crusaders
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- noisemakersnoisemaker, air horn, bell, buzzer, kazoo
- insurgentsinsurgent, guerrillas, guerrilla, rebel, resistance fighters
- negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, doomsayers, negative Nellies
rabble-rouserspeacemakers
Those who resolve conflicts
mediators · peacekeepers · healers · conciliators · reconcilers
rabble-rouserspillars of the community
Respected, influential local figures
stabilizers · loyalists · conformists · traditionalists · apologists
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