rabble-rouser

Reverend [Jesse] Jackson started as a rabble-rouser in Chicago and ended up running for president and having a talk show on CNN.

On The Real Housewives of New York City, Alex McCord has morphed from wallflower to rabble-rouser.

Before Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and a staid statesman, he was a Whig and a rabble-rouser.

He looked from his charges to the ranting fear-crazed rabble-rouser.

The average head of a democratic state is not ipso facto the best rabble-rouser within that state, but merely one of the best.