There is something interesting to say about Truth and the Post-Trump era but it's not that "we can get back to the Truth now".

Truth is always something that people have to negotiate within given systems of structure power and truth regimes. There is no singular objective truth is not a new idea but one we keep ignoring because it complicates things.

But we all live with very diverse, sometimes contradicting truth regimes and find way to navigate our days: You can be a scientist and religious for example which both carry different truths usually.

But when it comes to society we claim one truth to rule them all.

Sure, there is a consensus of sorts but that one is held up by institutions of power and when they lose influence and credibility the consensus falls.

That's not because people "no longer respect facts" but because truth and facts are not really the same thing.

I keep wanting to pitch "The term 'fake news' is just the bourgeois attempt to roll back the ideas of poststructuralism" but I just don't see anyone willing to "print" that ;

It's just cute how people now want to go back to this comfy thing that never existed just cause one mad man will soon be less relevant. But most "truths" don't stand the test of time.

What a post-Trump world should be based on is an attempt to understand how these different truth regimes we live in and with overlap, contradict each other or intersect. To come to a point that enables communication with less structural violence in the form of institutions.

Nobody can save your Micky-Mouse-concept of truth. But you can easily build a world that understands that not everybody's truth is the same and that that's neither dishonest nor malicious nor stupid.