rabble rousers
Stir up mobs
Rabble rousers are people who stir up public anger or discontent, typically through inflammatory speech.
The term carries a negative connotation—suggesting someone who exploits grievances rather than addresses them constructively: The senator dismissed the protesters as rabble rousers.
Also spelled rabble-rousers.
The verb is rabble-rouse; the activity is rabble-rousing.
- instigatorOne who provokes action
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- provocateurOne who deliberately incites
- demagoguesPoliticians manipulating mass emotion
- rebelsArmed opposition fighters
stir up trouble · inciter · firebrand · Emma Goldman · troublemaker · propagandists · Frederick Douglass · rally · radicals · seditionists · civil disobedience · anarchists · muckrakers · protest · dissenters · polemicists · strikes · Malcolm X
- opinion makerspundits, commentators, columnists, editorialists, op-ed writers
- Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
rabble rouserspeacemakers
Those who resolve conflicts
peacekeepers · conciliators · mediators · pacifiers · healers
rabble rousersstabilizers
Mechanisms ensuring steadiness
authority figures · conformists · pillars of the community · institutionalists · traditionalists
rabble rouserscompany men
Employees devoted to employer
yes-men · apparatchiks · functionaries · insiders · collaborators
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