Reclaiming Schmitt for Christian Politics

Right‑leaning intellectuals are explicitly promoting Carl Schmitt’s friend‑versus‑enemy framework as a corrective to liberal discourse, framing it as a restoration of Christian duty and moral clarity. That rhetorical move seeks to normalize a Schmittian political taxonomy in religious conservative circles and to immunize it against historical criticism. — If successful, this reframing would shift how political opponents are characterized in public debate and could legitimize more adversarial, exclusionary political rhetoric under a religious banner.