Carl Schmitt/Bill Barr

[David Morris]

This administration is corrupt as hell, as is the whole Republican Party.
Their prime goal is power ($$$).  All else is kabuki.

David Morris

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:27 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> makes for rather depressing reading
>
>
> https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/15/william-barr-the-carl-schmitt-of-our-time/
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> US Attorney General William Barr’s defense of unchecked executive authority
> in his recent speech to the Federalist Society had an unpleasant
> familiarity for me. It took me back to a time in my life—during the late
> 1990s, as a graduate student in England, and the early 2000s, teaching
> political theory in the politics department at Princeton University—when I
> seemed to spend altogether too much time arguing over the ideas of a Nazi
> legal theorist notorious as the “crown jurist” of the Third Reich.
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