Reply #81: But I'm not asking about any alleged prior "bad acts".

[Zhade]

I'm asking how his standing up against undeniable fraud on the part of Calderon - how that act itself, independent of people's opinion - could be seen as him becoming a demagogue.

If you mean to suggest that people's opinions of Abrador, based on some image of his past (quite possibly embellished and possibly outright lied about by the rightwing of Mexico), could lead them to misinterpret his desire to stand against clear, blatant fraud as demagogic, that I could see. After all, they're only human.

But his actions here are not subverting democracy. if anything, they are trying to preserve it, his personal alleged motivations (that none of us can honestly say we know) aside.