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The purpose of the article is to present the aspects of demagoguery in Janusz Korwin-Mikke’s political appeal during presidential election campaign in 2015. The aim is to showhow demagoguery is used by him to create the besieged fortress syndrome. The authorstresses a broad spectrum of rhetorical manipulatory strategies, which includes providingdemonic images of political opponents on the one side and idealized vision of Korwin-Mikke’ssupporters on the other.Keywords: demagoguery, besieged fortress syndrome, manipulatory strategies, politicalappeal