Trump e la frattura epistemica dello stato Dalla perturbazione fisiologica dell’interesse presidenziale alla deformazione della funzione cognitiva dell’intelligence

Dalla perturbazione dell’interesse presidenziale alla deformazione della funzione cognitiva dell’intelligence

Abstract

With the Trump presidencies, the epistemic order of the American Republic enters a phase of visible strain. The article shows how narrative pressure exerted on the cognitive function of intelligence tends to reduce the gap between political decision and operative truth, thereby making explicit the role of “Article Zero” as a presupposition of the republican form. This device refers to the historical centrality of U.S. security as the operational horizon of the constitutional order and to the internal gap that runs through the presidential function between decision and the production of knowledge. From this perspective, the identification between American national interest and the possibility of democracy in the world takes the shape of a historical configuration made practicable by the persistence of this epistemic gap. Through a historical and theoretical reconstruction—from the Cold War to the post-9/11 security architecture—the article argues that, when this gap is compressed, the constitutive tension of the American order evolves into a fracture whose effects extend beyond the United States.

Keywords: Article Zero; Presidential power; Intelligence and knowledge production; Epistemic gap; U.S. constitutional order