rabble rouser
Stirs up mobs
A rabble rouser is someone who stirs up crowds through inflammatory speech, typically appealing to emotions like anger or fear rather than reason.
The term carries a negative connotation, suggesting manipulation of ordinary people for political ends: The senator dismissed his opponent as a rabble rouser exploiting working-class resentment.
Also spelled rabble-rouser.
- demagogManipulative political orator
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- firebrandAgitator or burning stick
- polemicistAggressive debate writer
- mob mentalityCollective irrationality in groups
stir up trouble · crowd · rally · provocateur · instigator · troublemaker · soapbox · roar · call to arms · megaphone · rebel · suffragette · man of the people · shout · inciter · revolutionary · disruptor · malcontent
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
rabble rouserpeacemaker
Conflict resolution agent
pacifier · conciliator · unifier · mediator · reconciler
rabble rouserpeacemaker
Conflict resolution agent
stabilizer · pillar of the community · steady hand · elder statesman · conformist
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