In an interesting development that Schmitt did not anticipate, Hayek hit upon the brilliant notion of developing the “double truth” doctrine of neoliberalism—namely, an elite would be tutored to understand the deliciously transgressive Schmittian necessity of repressing democracy, while the masses would be regaled with ripping tales of “rolling back the nanny state” and being set “free to choose”—by convening a closed Leninist organization of counter-intellectuals.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2146