Schmittian

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Schmittian (not comparable)

Of, or related to political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) or his theories.
- 2020 December 1, Chang Che, “The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:
  That China has gotten rid of the virus, which President Donald Trump called “the invisible enemy,” while the United States remains hobbled by it, is portrayed among Chinese statists as a triumph for the Schmittian worldview.
- 2022 July 21, Imogen Dewey, “Enclave by Claire G Coleman review – why shouldn’t we make a utopia?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:
  Us and them: the Schmittian fantasy underpinning the binary myth of a carceral state like Safetown, “everybody keeping watch on everybody else”.

Schmittian (plural Schmittians)

A follower of the ideas of Carl Schmitt.
- 2020 April 14, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes, “Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:
  Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority.