Could the internet promise honors to a new prince? Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic in United States

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29373/sas.v10i00.14630

Keywords:

Donald Trump, Pandemic, Fake news, Internet

Abstract

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared Pandemic status due to the spread of the new Coronavirus Sars-Cov-2, which causes the Covid-19 disease. The responses from each state was different, and in the United States, Donald Trump chose to follow the characteristics that elected him, such as denial and the dissemination of Fake News on the internet, impacting the population’s attitudes and taking the country to a high number of deaths from the disease. In this paper we will briefly analyze Trump’s election and his government’s management of the pandemic, making use of Machiavelli’s concepts of virtù and fortune to weave our analyses.

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Author Biographies

Júlia Volpato Moutropoulos, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Araraquara – SP

Graduanda no curso de Administração Pública.

Vinícius de Souza Sturari, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas – SP

Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política. Pesquisador do Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa Participação e Democracia (GEPPADE-FCLAr) e do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Participação, Movimentos Sociais e Ação Coletiva (NEPAC-Unicamp).

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Published

30/06/2021

How to Cite

MOUTROPOULOS, J. V.; STURARI, V. de S. Could the internet promise honors to a new prince? Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic in United States. Revista Sem Aspas , Araraquara, v. 10, n. 00, p. e021002, 2021. DOI: 10.29373/sas.v10i00.14630. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/semaspas/article/view/14630. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.