rabble-rouser
A politician who deliberately tries to get her audience excited and angry can be described as a rabble-rouser.
There's a fine line between a rabble-rouser and a great public speaker. A rabble-rouser's highest priority is getting people worked up, especially by appealing to their prejudices and ignorance, with the ultimate goal of his own political support. It's a nineteenth century phrase that combines rouse, or "stir up," with rabble, which originally meant "a pack of animals," and later came to also mean "an unruly mob of people."
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