Is Trump "the Sovereign"? Does MAGA Speak For "the People"?

Sam Mace on Carl Schmitt and Donald Trump.

Several people have argued that — consciously or not — Trump and Vance are following the thought of Carl Schmitt, a Nazi jurist and legal philosopher who developed influential ideas about executive power, popular sovereignty, the reduction of politics to the conflict between friends and enemies, and the so-called “state of exception.”

In the last decade…