At some point relatively early in his (1932) “Notes on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political,” Leo Strauss suggests that according to Schmitt liberalism is akin to living in Plato’s cave.+ Here’s how Strauss puts it J. Harvey Lomax’s translation:
I don't really see the need to engage with Schmitt. AFAICT, he fills a vacant space in some mental maps of the intellectual world. in the same way that Paul Ryan used to fill the space "Republican policy wonk". Roughly speaking, it's the gap, left by the decline of Marxism/Leninism, in the space "justification for anti-liberal political violence".
I don't really see the need to engage with Schmitt. AFAICT, he fills a vacant space in some mental maps of the intellectual world. in the same way that Paul Ryan used to fill the space "Republican policy wonk". Roughly speaking, it's the gap, left by the decline of Marxism/Leninism, in the space "justification for anti-liberal political violence".
But you can get that more succinctly from Hanns Johst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst , to whom only one kind of reply is possible.