Логика на пропагандата. Втора част: Конспиративната граматика на популистката пропаганда
Logics of Propaganda. Second Part. The Conspiracy Grammar of Populist Propaganda

Summary/Abstract: In the lines of the more general logics of propaganda outlined in the First Part, the Second Part of this study aims to shed light on the recently growing populist-propaganda front. In contrast to many researchers who speak about a “populist wave” recently spreading nearly all over the world (from Putin to Trump and back), on the level of the discourses we prefer to call the same phenomenon “a populist-propaganda front”. The last newly coined term presupposes that the dispersed popular discontents today are to great extent already captured and packed in a new propaganda regime. First, gradually after 2000, the new populist-propaganda package (basic grammar and vocabulary) was set by Russian media but Russia does not determine all of its uses; they can be and are used in anti-Russian talk too. This package – national-sovereigntist and conservative in its own terms – serves not the local people but it is utilized by different local political-economic actors (oligarchs): it is a circulating resource for a state capture. The particular practical logic of this populist propaganda is outlined here on the basis of the empirical study “Anti-Democratic Propaganda in Bulgaria. News Websites and Printed Media: 2013 – 2016”.

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