The Liberalism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

Schmidt: The deficiencies of democracy imply that dictatorship is the only viable alternative. Schmidt admires de mistre, louis de bonald and de nosre cortez for rejecting everlasting conversation as a substitute for concrete political action. These men viewed much of politics through a theological lens, or rather of analogies to theology,. They realized that liberalism of their time had no idea what it wanted. It was essentially incoherent.