JD Vance advocates NAZI policies.
Read his own words on NAZI law …
The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politics
A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
by Jennifer Szalai
The New York Times, July 13, 2024, updated July 15, 2024
It was a curious line, not just for what it said, but also because of who was saying it. In an interview last month with the New York Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat, J.D. Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio who is vying to be Donald Trump’s running mate, declared: “The thing that I kept thinking about liberalism in 2019 and 2020 is that these guys have all read Carl Schmitt — there’s no law, there’s just power. And the goal here is to get back in power.”
Vance was referring to the political theorist and Nazi jurist who provided much of the intellectual ballast for the Third Reich. Schmitt despised liberalism. Yet according to Vance, liberals are in thrall to this adamantly illiberal thinker, a man who extolled the dictatorial use of executive power to defeat one’s enemies.
That, at least, is what I think Vance was saying. His examples of Schmittian liberalism involved not jackboot autocracy but political correctness — an “absolutely tyrannical” force that meant “there was nothing you were allowed to say.”
In the rest of the interview, Vance seemed to have few qualms about wielding power to defeat enemies, as long as conservatives were the ones doing it. Asked about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Vance defended Trump (who, until he was injured by a gunman at a rally on Saturday, has talked incessantly about crushing his enemies). “I think that challenging elections and questioning the legitimacy of elections is actually part of the democratic process,” Vance said. “When they say, ‘He’s threatening the foundation of American society,’ I can’t help but roll my eyes.”
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GOP moneybaggers Thiel and Musk are NAZIs, too.
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