fallacy

How demagogues manipulate people

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Demagogue (noun) – a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument. – Oxford Languages Our political discourse today is filled with demagogues. There is much power to gain, and money to be made, by cultivating a mass following of devoted fans. … Read more

The straw man

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Republicans frequently employ the informal fallacy. This category of faulty reasoning includes such problems as ad hominem (personal) attacks, begging the question, equivocation, false dilemma, faulty analogy, inconsistency and more. (Here is an interesting list). Informal fallacies are not fallacies of logic (those are called formal fallacies). Rather, they are fallacies caused by faulty premises … Read more