“Schmitt’s anti-liberal project helps make sense of why, when it comes to Venezuela, Trump would rather deal with an authoritarian like Delcy Rodríguez than liberals such as María Corina Machado and Edmundo González. It helps explain why Trump cares little for longtime democratic alliances connecting the United States to Europe and East Asia. We can see why, when he looks at Greenland, he sees only another Alaska.” … “For [Trump], the two authoritarian giants [Russia & the PRC] are no worse than liberal democracies. Indeed, they are better: Autocrats understand that politics is not about justice or freedom but is nothing more than bargaining about who has what.”