Essay: Friends and Enemies
Read this essay I wrote for American Mind about the right's failure to grasp the most elementary principle of political behaviour
German jurist Carl Schmitt identified what he considered to be the real foundation of all political behavior. In The Concept of the Political, Schmitt wrote that “the specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
It’s this master rule of political behavior, the ability to distingui…
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