I agree. An observation I have made over the years is that many smart and effective politicians are story-talkers as I call them. Instead of the bland fact speaking politicians marching down their laundry list, they weave their points through stories and pose questions that has each listener
give the correct answer themselves. We are all story-talkers, that's how we communicate our life experiences to others. We tell them the facts of it through stories. A simple example: They take a policy point casually discuss it through real life examples and then ask, how does it affect you?
Listeners always give the correct answer. They experience that correct answer in your presence, it builds something. "They talk/think like I do." We like story-talkers, good ones. Humans have never gotten away from the need to gather and listen. Trump's rallies were those and he told stories.
I think of B. Clinton, B. Obama, Kate Bailey Hutchinson, and Maya Angelou did it poetically so but wasn't a politician, as examples who come to mind of such people. I think that's an important skill that has been underutilized by the party. Stern letters worked in an era when no one shredded them.