A brief history of Carl Schmitt in the English-speaking world: 1945-1991: "Carl Schmitt? You mean the crazy Nazi guy who wrote a bunch of self-contradictory authoritarian blather to justify Hitler? Why should anyone waste their time on such obviously ridiculous garbage?" 1992-2000: "Hey this Carl Schmitt guy may be a Nazi, but he has some useful ideas for our Marxist quest to dethrone neoliberalism, and that's useful for our purposes now that the Soviet Union is gone" 2001-2010: "The lefties may have rediscovered this Schmitt guy, but they've missed his real utility, which is justifying unilateral executive power during emergencies in order to fight the global war on terror!" 2011-present: "Well that GWOT thing didn't turn out so great. But we still like Schmitt and especially the exercise of power that he justifies. Let's merge him with theocratic integralism, even though he was an excommunicated degenerate, and just declare that we're Holier Than Thou, meaning nobody can question us when we try to implement his Nazi ideas under the borrowed name of the 'common good'"

Encouraging people to read Carl Schmitt without substantively discussing how his theories relate to Nazism is a bit like teaching a class on the history Marxism without ever mentioning the Soviet Union.