Also, adding to my comment , this is the first paragraph: >Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

The work referenced here is an argument distributed as a pamphlet by Thomas Paine before the American separation from Great Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense

Whether that corresponds to your modern rhetorical trend is, I suppose, up to you.

Yeah, a semantic shift might have occurred. Remember we live in a hyper individual society compared to the time of Thomas.

It’s more about an appeal to our common humanity, if that makes sense :)