In front of hundreds of generals and admirals specially summoned for the occasion, #Trump and #Hegseth both invoked Carl Schmitt's classic friend/enemy dichotomy yesterday, without, however, naming an external #enemy .Instead, they denounced all the more vehemently the “internal enemy” to be fought, including with #military means: #liberalism in the #USA .The future of #democracy in the US looks really bleak.