mobocrat
nounEtymology From mob + -o- + -crat.
1
One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- 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.1879, Peter Bayne, Lessons from my Masters — Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin:
- Related terms
- mobocracy