Post Truth Politics

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorSCMS School of Technology and Management

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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• Post-truth politics is a political culture in which debate is

framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from

the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of

talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored.

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Post Truth Politics

• Post-truth differs from

traditional contesting

and falsifying of truth by

rendering it of

"secondary" importance.

• From Trump to Erdogan and to Brexit leaders, these

politicians rely on “assertions that ‘feel true’ but have no

basis in fact.” Feelings, not facts, “are what matter” in this

sort of politics.

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• Republican presidential

candidate Donald J.

Trump has become the voice

of those who were let down

and left behind, including by

traditional GOP leaders.

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• Isn’t true about Erdogan, too?

Turks both in Turkey and abroad

are proud of a leader who yells at

Israel (never mind the silent

reconciliation) and lifted millions

out of poverty, made long

oppressed Muslims feel as “first-

class citizens.”

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• Because Erdogan and Trump

make their electorate feel

“great and empowered”,

who cares if they tell the

truth or lie, if they respect

laws or bend them?

Post Truth Politics

• When a public figure claims

that President Barack Obama was

not born in the U.S. and that he is

not a patriotic American, it feeds

into people’s worst impulses. It

helps consolidate many around a

single political line.