Carl Schmitt's polemical discussion of political Romanticism conceals the aestheticizing oscillations of his own political thought. In this respect, too, a kinship of spirit with the fascist intelligentsia reveals itself. Jürgen Habermas, “The Horrors of Autonomy: Carl Schmitt in English” The pinnacle of great politics is the moment in which the enemy comes into view in concrete clarity as the enemy. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (1927)