Trumpismul între spectacol și adevăr. Către o politoscopie în era post-adevăr
Trumpism Between Spectacle and Truth. Towards a politoscopy in the post-truth era

Summary/Abstract: This essay proposes, within the broader context of the post-truth era,a critical reading of the Trumpist political-media phenomenon starting from two hypotheses. The first hypothesis argues that, in an age where media spectacle prevails over truth and political discourse loses its grounding in reality—becoming a product of emotional impulses and media effects—democracy risks shrinking to the point of disappearance, not through formal abolition but through an emptying of content and the trivialization of the public sphere. The second hypothesis advocates for a cultural reconstruction of the public sphere by adopting a cognitive-behavioral model based on politoscopy-a reflexive practic eof critical analysis of political discourse aimed at revealing the symbolic mechanisms and power relations concealed within the scenario of the political spectacle. The exercise of trans-apparency and the cultivation of functional truths capable of mediating conflicting realities can constitute the premises for reasonable coexistence and for the revitalization of deliberative democracy.Together, these cultural practices-derived from the philosophy of truth, symbolic analysis, and pragmatic communication-outline a proactive cognitive-behavioral model that is essential to democracy in the post-truth era.

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