Delegitimation rejects knowledge institutions and opposition conventions wholesale.

Evidence

We are learning what delegitimation looks like. Authorities are cast as hostile elements—worms in the bowels of the nation. Officials are “so-called” officials (for example, “the quote ‘president’ ” Obama). They are demeaned and undermined, threatened, and declared criminal or traitorous. The set of assumptions undergirding regular and open political opposition and party competition is overturned. Knowledge-producing institutions and the information and reasoning they provide are rejected wholesale. Delegitimation drains authority from the institutions and practices that make democracy work. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 87

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to isolating/conspiracy-theory material in Haas-style accounts of institutional knowledge distrust. — connects to: Delegitimation strips institutions of standing to persuade or govern — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 26; Evidence-based correction fails against adherents of fabulation because knowledge institutions have already been delegitimized. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 344; Delegitimizing parties and knowledge institutions blocks democracy’s core functions — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 276 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Evidence-based correction fails against adherents of fabulation because knowledge institutions have already been delegitimized. #expands (0.90) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 344
• Delegitimizing parties and knowledge institutions blocks democracy’s core functions #expands (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 276
• Modern intellectual disputes also reject shared facts and caricature adversaries #exemplifies (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1381
• Dismissing discredited concepts wholesale forfeits their rational core. #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 146
• Externally imposed institutions fail when they contradict socially embedded ways of doing things. #exemplifies (0.72) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 131