See the video below, which starts with a clip of Trump answering a question followed by the analysis. Trump
is not consciously manipulating his speech to achieve this 4th grade
reading level; that's this "huckster saleman's" intellectual level.
Sadly, it's also the general level of the American public, so sure, he
connects with that. One solution is to invest in pubic education and
teachers so that we are at least at a high school level in the general
population and not prone to this unconscious manipulation. But that is
exactly one of the regressive Republican strategies, defunding and
dumbing down public education.
On
the other hand, yes, I agree that even the 'smarter' progressive folks
have to frame their language to connect with our emotional drives.
Lakoff is expert in guiding progressives on that, and Obama has for the
most part done an excellent job of it rhetorically. Which of course has
to do with integrating (as in integral) the so-called higher and lower
levels so that they can be connected via language.
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