The article contains results of analysis of the historical change of paradigms presented by mass visions of the place and mission of a state within political process; the paradigms within which society designed political functionality of the “state of the future”. The author proves that in the face of pandemic and active fight of modern state institutions against it, social interest in optimization of political functions’ allocation between civil society and bureaucratic structures has risen. As a result, a new paradigm of designing (“new normality”) was born within public consciousness; conceptual formation of this paradigm was due not so much to science but to different network communications inside civil society. The author offers political science interpretation of content aspects of “new normality” paradigm and risks for further development of democratic process in our country and throughout the entire world entailed by commitment of public consciousness to it while designing political functionality of a state.