History As It Happens

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Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist who joined the Nazi Party after Hitler achieved power. Schmitt supplied legal justifications for the Third Reich as it crushed all opposition and persecuted Jews. Yet long after he collaborated with this monstrous regime, Schmitt's ideas remained influential, and he maintained a respectable following. What explains his popularity on the New Right today in the Age of Trump?

Further reading:

The American New Right Looks Like the European Old Right by Phil Magness and Jack Nicastro in Reason

The Enemy of Liberalism by Mark Lilla in The New York Review

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