Erick Erickson has a must-read, deeply researched dive into Charles Haywood and other “Schmittian” thinkers insinuating themselves into positions of influence within the American right and certain of its institutions to promote white identity politics, monarchism, and other noxious ideas:

In a document he calls the Foundationalist Manifesto, Haywood explained that his preferred government “will not be democratic.” The state “will have unlimited means,” because “properly viewed, the state is not constrained externally.” Women “will not be permitted to choose career over family.” Men “will not be permitted to choose not to have a family.” The state will seize the assets of “any citizen who views himself as a global citizen.” That is not my characterization of his politics. Those are his words, from the manifesto that earned him a friendly sit-down with Tucker Carlson in September 2022. . . . Unfortunately, the........

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