Why this word is great
PLEBICOLIST — [Noun] One who flatters or curries favor with the general public; a demagogue with a honeyed tongue. From Latin plebs ("the common people") + colere ("to cultivate") + -ist (agent suffix)—a cultivator of mass approval, tending not to truth but to vanity. Unlike "demagogue" (which wields rhetoric like a torch to ignite passions) or "populist" (which may, however clumsily, champion real grievances), the plebicolist traffics in saccharine devotion: the politician kissing babies with calculated spontaneity, the influencer mirroring back the crowd’s desires like a funhouse oracle, the courtier who laughs a beat too long at the king’s joke. Their art is the illusion of intimacy, a performance of belonging that leaves only the faintest aftertaste of something hollow. To flatter the crowd is to confess one’s own hunger.