William Barr: The Carl Schmitt of Our Time.
And Braverman? No one would call her “brilliant”
Schmitt stipulated that the essential decision was not a moral choice between good and evil but the primally political distinction between friend and enemy. nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/…
And Braverman? No one would call her “brilliant”
Schmitt stipulated that the essential decision was not a moral choice between good and evil but the primally political distinction between friend and enemy. nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/…
“And that distinction, in order to be political in the most important sense, had to generate such intense commitment that people would be prepared to die for it“
He wrote this in 1932
A few years later fellow Germans showed they WERE willing to kill for it
And kill & kill & kill
He wrote this in 1932
A few years later fellow Germans showed they WERE willing to kill for it
And kill & kill & kill
“Barr’s view is the final reductio ad Schmitt of our political era. As US attorney general, at the head of the Justice Department, he is charged with upholding the rule of law, but he admires only lawlessness in moments of crisis.”
Braverman too sought to defend efforts at lawlessness of the executive (both re A50 notice and the improper and unlawful Prorogation of Parliament).
