nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220308-001230-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220307s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220308-001230-0 doi eng 342 23 Dyzenhaus, David Author aut The Snake Charmers Dyzenhaus, David Verfassungsblog 2022-03-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As Russian tanks roll into the Ukraine, we should be wary of these ‘dreamers of the absolute’ in our midst. They worship the executive because only a strong executive is capable of rolling back the cosmopolitan, human rights achievements of the latter half of the twentieth century. But such worship depends on maintaining in power the person at the head of the executive who shares at least the most important tenets of their version of the ‘common good’. That requires not only freeing the executive from the constraints of the rule of law, both internationally and within the nation state. It also requires that democracy be hollowed out in order to ensure that periodic elections return the right person to power. CC BY-SA 4.0 Carl Schmitt dignity Human Dignity liberal Democracy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/os5-snake-charmers/ raw object