rabble-rousing
Stirring up mobs
Rabble-rousing is stirring up anger or excitement in a crowd, typically for political purposes.
The rabble is the common people viewed dismissively, and to rouse them suggests inciting unrest or discontent.
A rabble-rouser appeals to emotions rather than reason: His rabble-rousing speeches drew thousands to the cause.
The term often carries disapproval, implying demagoguery.
Provoking unlawful behavior
- provocationAct that triggers response
- instigationAct of provoking action
- stirring upCausing to activate
- inflammatoryTending to provoke outrage
incendiary · firebrand · troublemaking · antagonizing · fomenting · whipping up · inflaming · goading
Manipulative populist leader
- demagogueryManipulative political rhetoric
- populismPolitics favoring ordinary citizens
- fearmongeringDeliberately spreading exaggerated threats
- scaremongeringSpreading exaggerated threats
propaganda · manipulation · brainwashing · indoctrination · persuasion · oratory · rhetoric · speechifying
Tending to provoke outrage
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- polemicalStrongly attacking opposing views
- contentiousInclined toward disagreement
divisive · controversial · sensational · bombastic · fiery · vitriolic · caustic · bellicose
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- activismDirect effort for reform
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
organizing · mobilization · march · rally · picketing · boycott · uprising · rebellion
incitement
Provoking unlawful behavior
- provocationAct that triggers response
- instigationAct of provoking action
- stirring upCausing to activate
inflammatory · incendiary · firebrand · troublemaking · antagonizing · fomenting · whipping up · inflaming · goading · riling
demagogue
Manipulative populist leader
- demagogueryManipulative political rhetoric
- populismPolitics favoring ordinary citizens
- fearmongeringDeliberately spreading exaggerated threats
scaremongering · propaganda · manipulation · brainwashing · indoctrination · persuasion · oratory · rhetoric · speechifying · grandstanding
inflammatory
Tending to provoke outrage
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- polemicalStrongly attacking opposing views
contentious · divisive · controversial · sensational · bombastic · fiery · vitriolic · caustic · bellicose · combative
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- activismDirect effort for reform
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
grassroots · organizing · mobilization · march · rally · picketing · boycott · uprising · rebellion · insurrection
- provocationbaiting, goading, taunting, incitement, instigation
- rowdinessrowdiness, boisterousness, raucousness, unruliness, roughhousing
- troublemakingtroublemaker, troublemaking, instigate, agitator, instigating
- demagogueryfearmongering, fear mongering, scapegoating, pandering, incitement
- emotional rhetoricpathos, emotional appeal, appeals to emotion, loaded language, loaded words
- mischiefmischief, hijinks, antics, pranks, antic
rabble-rousingcalming
Inducing a settled state
soothing · pacifying · placating · mollifying · tranquilizing
rabble-rousingpeacemaking
Resolving conflicts through negotiation
conciliatory · unifying · peacekeeping · stabilizing · harmonizing
rabble-rousingmeasured
Carefully considered, unhurried
dispassionate · reasoned · level-headed · even-tempered · temperate