"folk devil" meaning in English

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          "text": "It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, \"Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil.",
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          "ref": "1996 December 18, Robert Verkaik, “‘Crash’ tackling”, in The Independent (UK), retrieved 2014-06-08",
          "text": "Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on a folk devil to attribute all evil.",
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