I have thought, too, of Hitler. His oratory skills were salve to a broken and downtrodden Germany--and led to one of the most hideous travesties in modern history. So my question for rhetoricians who speak of rhetoric as justice: When the unjust use rhetoric (such as Hitler), is it not rhetoric? Is it only true rhetoric when used justly? And if so, who decides what is just and unjust?
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