review and something that seems to haunt him is how quickly the nazis but of course the help of carl schmitt had been able to destroy the look out at the end of the rule of law at the end of the republic. republic. so this idea of the supreme court that's respected by the other branches of government can be a guardian of the constitution that was an element of the political culture that he liked a great deal. but he doesn't talk to -- also generally come of the separation of powers. but he doesn't take what i would call any particular ideological spin on the american political culture or the american political tradition. in his letters to the somewhat crazy conservative drunk, he complained about the extent to which he felt that they were starting to influence public life in america and i think that he rather unfairly considered of john f. kennedy to be an example of that. not i think a well picked example, but he had real concerns about that aspect, but relatively recent aspect of american political culture and the sort of tv oriented and soundbite oriented and so on. but that's -- none of