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"Whereas Hobbes believed the purpose of the state is protection of individuals from violence & insecurity – a liberal position – Carl Schmitt charged the sovereign w/ promoting homogeneity of the people -- making him most attractive to Chinese leadership."
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"While Western liberalism maybe largely defunct, illiberal Western ideas are shaping the future. The West is not dying but alive in tyrannies that threaten it. Unable to grasp this paradoxical reality, our elites look blankly as the world they took for grantd slips into shadows."
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