http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/85823b58a096c832 https://verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as-dual-state/ Trump 2.0 as ‘Dual State’? Scheuerman, William E. eng 2025-05-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Carl Schmitt Donald Trump Dual State Theory executive powers Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Donald Trump’s radicalized efforts to transform US constitutional democracy into personalized executive-centered rule have again generated a predictable avalanche of invocations of Carl Schmitt. Less predictably, recent political commentators have turned to one of Schmitt’s contemporary critics, the mid-century socialist jurist and political scientist, Ernst Fraenkel, claiming that his account of the Nazi “dual state,” in which rule-based normative and discretionary prerogative legal spheres uneasily coexisted, provides a useful template for making sense of Trump 2.0’s highly selective rendition of legal fidelity.