A number of political theorists have argued that liberal democracy has been overtaken by spectacle. Douglas Kellner (2003, 2016) argues that politics has become obsessed with spectacular imagery, as evidenced by the rise of Donald Trump in the United States (2016). The same has been applied to politicians such as Hillary Clinton, who is regarded to have operated under neoliberal feminism in order to advance the capitalist paradigm. Before Trump, Ronald Reagan can be seen as the first example of this theory in USA politics. Similarly Tauel Harper (2011) argues that our social formations and political practices are constructed and sustained by the logics of spectacle and render us as homo spectaculum or 'beings of the spectacle'.
A number of political theorists have argued that liberal democracy has been overtaken by spectacle. Douglas Kellner (2003, 2016) argues that politics has become obsessed with spectacular imagery, as evidenced by the rise of Donald Trump in the United States (2016). The same has been applied to politicians such as Hillary Clinton, who is regarded to have operated under neoliberal feminism in order to advance the capitalist paradigm. Before Trump, Ronald Reagan can be seen as the first example of this theory in American politics. Similarly Tauel Harper argues that our social formations and political practices are constructed and sustained by the logics of spectacle and render us as homo spectaculum or 'beings of the spectacle'.
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