Roberts-Miller P. Rhetoric and demagoguery

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. — 261 p.Through a series of case studies, Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way that people participate in public discourse, not necessarily populist and not necessarily heavily emotional. Demagoguery, she contents, depoliticizes political argument by making all issues into questions of identityIntroduction: demagogues and demagoguery
Invasion of Iraq and the evasion of policy deliberation
Punishment/reward and binary paired terms
Scapegoating and rationality markers
When the choir claims to have been converted
Anti-intellectualism and the appeal to expert opinion.