Alarmism
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Alarmism, one of the Best New Conservative Words, consists of exaggerated claims of crisis in order to demand unwarranted controls, typically by government.
H. L. Mencken ... explained [that] "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." [1]