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Putin became the bellwether of the Russian sheeple ... "
Boris Johnson

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bellwether

the leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck.
an indicator or predictor of something.
"college campuses are often the bellwether of change" · "the market's bellwether stock"
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A jury also convicted Guy Wesley Reffitt of obstructing Congress' joint session to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021, of interfering with police officers who were guarding the Capitol and of threatening his two teenage children if they reported him to law enforcement after the attack. Jurors deliberated about three hours and convicted him on all counts.
"Maybe he went to trial because he thought that maybe he could win on some of the other charges," Associated Press writer Jacques Billeaud says.
 
The verdict could be a bellwether for many other Capitol riot cases. It could give Justice Department prosecutors more leverage in plea negotiations and discourage other defendants from gambling on trials of their own.

German
NOUN
Leithammel

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Sheeple
Sheeple is a derogatory term that highlights the herd behavior of people by likening them to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research.

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Leithammel (Deutsch)
Wortart: Substantiv, (maennlich)

Bedeutung/Definition
1) Leittier bei einer Schafherde
2) abwertend, uebertragen: Person, der von anderen unueberlegt und bereitwillig gefolgt wird
Begriffsursprung
Determinativkompositum aus dem Stamm des Verbs leiten und dem Substantiv Hammel
Anwendungsbeispiele
1) Der Leithammel fuehrt seine Herde an.
1) „Ziegen fungieren anscheinend auch als eine Art natuerlicher Leithammel, dem die Schafe folgen.“
1) „Wie dem Leithammel die Herde folgten die Soldaten dem Offizier, aus Gewohnheit, befehlsgemae;, selbst unter staerkstem Feindfeuer.“
2) „In einer Demokratie duerfen die Schafe alle vier Jahre einen neuen Leithammel waehlen.“
2) „Er verstand nicht, dass er nicht mehr der Leithammel war, dem alle automatisch folgten.“