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Full Idea
Now, with the development of rhetoric, those who are able public speakers become popular leaders.
Gist of Idea
Rhetoric now enables good speakers to become popular leaders
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1305a12)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.119
A Reaction
Demosthenes was an exact contemporary of Aristotle. Nowadays we are conscious of the 'dumbing down' by popular speakers, which is not the same as rhetoric.