In a follow-up session to the workshop “The Future of Deliberative Democracy”, a group of deliberative democrats (Jane Mansbridge, John Dryzek, Simone Chambers, Hélène Landemore, Maija Setälä, Simon Niemeyer, Andrea Fellicetti and André Bächtiger) joined forces with framing and democracy scholars (Rune Slothuus and Sofie Marien) to deliberate about post-truth politics, populism, citizen competence and deliberative democracy. The goal is to develop a major statement why deliberative democracy can be both a diagnostic tool and a cure for democracy´s contemporary challenges.