The author argues that treating politics as war—seeing rivals as enemies and conflict as existential—feeds today’s uptick in political violence. He traces this mindset to influential ideologies (Marx/Mao; Schmitt) and urges rebuilding politics around cooperation and rule‑bound competition instead.
— Reframing politics away from enemy‑logic could reduce justificatory narratives for violence and reset speech and mobilization norms across institutions.
Corey cites Marx, Mao, and Carl Schmitt to show how 'politics as war' entered mainstream thinking and links that frame to the Kirk assassination context.