Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The embrace of authoritarian notions isn’t just a matter of base emotional impulses dressed up in formalistic language. There’s a deadly serious set of ideas behind it, revealing the disturbingly widespread influence of Carl Schmitt, a German jurist and political philosopher who became a prominent propagandist during the early years of the Nazi regime. You might think a literal Nazi would be thoroughly discredited, but the grim reality is he has been embraced as a respectable thinker and even a laudable role model long after the regime he served died in a bunker in Berlin. Trump himself has surely never studied Schmitt. But those around him, influencing him, and shaping the movement which supports him, certainly have.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-effort-to-become-the-supreme