We are living through the long aftershock of Carl Schmitt, the jurist who taught that law is a costume and power the naked truth beneath it. From Berlin to Moscow to Washington, the same old doctrine resurfaces: the sovereign as the breaker of rules, the decider of exceptions, the one who divides the world into the saved and the ****** It is a politics that worships strength, demands enemies, and treats restraint as treason. The danger is not any single leader but the ancient temptation they embody — the belief that democracy is weakness and that only the iron will of one man can deliver a nation from its own laws. That is the Schmittian inheritance, and it is stalking the world again.
THE DOCTRINE OF THE STRONG
They rise from the wreckage of law like flame,
branding their hunger with holiest name.
They crown the exception, they sanctify might,
and scream it salvation .... and swear it is right.
They carve up the world with a butcher’s grace,
leering as fear rearranges the face.
Promising order, delivered by fire ....
the oldest seduction in power’s desire.
They speak of the people, but mean solely one;
a nation eclipsed by the will of The Son.
And all who resist are condemned as contused ....
the enemy’s mask is whatever they choose.
Remember this lesson, carved deep to the bone:
the land that kneels now will die at its throne.
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27 March 2026