mobocrat
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Etymology
Noun
mobocrat (plural mobocrats)
- One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- 1879, Peter Bayne, Lessons from my Masters — Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin:
- he impales the idiotic notion, possibly entertained by a brainless mobocrat here and there, that, if you only perfect your voting apparatus, you are absolutely certain of good government.
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