I'm pretty sure it's standard practice to dumb down speeches for the masses. Before AI this was probably done by professional propaganda wordsmiths. I once read a speech by 19th century frontiersman turned politician Davy Crockett. It was so complex, so elaborately convoluted, composed of run-on sentences addressing various ideas at the same time, that it was hard for me to imagine how he could even deliver it, let alone what impact it would have. Supposedly it was well received, but I'm certain it went over the heads of most potential voters.
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