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    Commentary: Why demagogues were the Founding Fathers' greatest fear

    by Eli Merritt, Los Angeles Times Dec 30, 2019 3 minutes

    There has been much talk lately among both Democrats and Republicans of the intents of the founders in the writing of the Constitution, especially involving the powers of impeachment and removal from office.

    What has been sorely lacking from this conversation is an awareness of the framers' overwhelming conviction that there was nothing more poisonous to constitutional democracies than demagogues - which to them meant a very specific kind of threat.

    Less than two weeks after the start

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