Sentence:  "Up in his ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, <WSD>chop logic</WSD>, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable men." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry.