Endorsing The Deep State
Endangers Democracy
By Moon Of Alabama
October 28, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
Since Donald Trump was
elected president the New York Times'
understanding of the 'Deep State' evolved from a
total denial of its existence towards a full
endorsement of its anti-democratic operations.
February 16, 2017 -
As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in
America
A wave of leaks from government officials has
hobbled the Trump administration, leading some
to draw comparisons to countries like Egypt,
Turkey and Pakistan, where shadowy networks
within government bureaucracies, often referred
to as “deep states,” undermine and coerce
elected governments.
So is the United States seeing the
rise of its own deep state?
Not quite, experts say, but
the echoes are real — and disturbing.
March 6, 2017 -
Rumblings of a ‘Deep State’ Undermining Trump? It
Was Once a Foreign Concept
The concept of a “deep state” — a shadowy
network of agency or military officials who
secretly conspire to influence government policy
— is more often used to describe countries like
Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, where authoritarian
elements band together to undercut
democratically elected leaders. But inside the
West Wing, Mr. Trump and his inner circle,
particularly his chief strategist, Stephen K.
Bannon, see the influence of such forces at work
within the United States, essentially
arguing that their own government is being
undermined from within.
It is an extraordinary contention for
a sitting president to make.
March 10, 2017 -
What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That
Doesn’t Exist
American institutions do not resemble the
powerful deep states of countries like Egypt or
Pakistan, experts say. Nor do individual leaks,
a number of which have come from President
Trump’s own team, amount to a conspiracy.
The diagnosis of a “deep state,”
those experts say, has the problem backward.
...
Though Mr. Trump has not publicly used
the phrase, allies and sympathetic news
media outlets have repurposed “deep state” from
its formal meaning — a network of civilian and
military officials who control or undermine
democratically elected governments — to a
pejorative meant to accuse civil servants of
illegitimacy and political animus.
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September 5, 2018 -
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump
Administration
On Russia, for instance, the president was
reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies
as punishment for the poisoning of a former
Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks
about senior staff members letting him get boxed
into further confrontation with Russia, and he
expressed frustration that the United States
continued to impose sanctions on the country for
its malign behavior. But his national security
team knew better — such actions had to be taken,
to hold Moscow accountable.
This isn’t the work of the so-called
deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
December 18, 2018 -
Blaming the Deep State: Officials Accused of
Wrongdoing Adopt Trump’s Response
President Trump has long tried to
explain away his legal troubles as the work of a
“deep state” of Obama supporters
entrenched in the law-enforcement and
national-security bureaucracies who are just out
to get him. Now junior officials and others
accused of wrongdoing are making the case that
the same purported forces are illegitimately
targeting them, too.
October 6, 2019 -
Italy’s Connection to the Russia Investigation,
Explained
President Trump and some of his allies have
asserted without evidence that a cabal
of American officials — the so-called deep state
— embarked on a broad operation to
thwart Mr. Trump’s campaign. The
conspiracy theory remains unsubstantiated,
...
October 20, 2019 -
They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal.
They Are Public Servants.
President Trump is right: The deep state
is alive and well. But it is not the
sinister, antidemocratic cabal of his fever
dreams. It is, rather, a collection of patriotic
public servants — career diplomats, scientists,
intelligence officers and others — who, from
within the bowels of this corrupt and corrupting
administration, have somehow remembered that
their duty is to protect the interests, not of a
particular leader, but of the American people.
October 23, 2019 -
Trump’s War on the ‘Deep State’ Turns Against Him
[O]ver the last three weeks, the deep
state has emerged from the shadows in
the form of real live government officials, past
and present, who have defied a White House
attempt to block cooperation with House
impeachment investigators and provided evidence
that largely backs up the still-anonymous
whistle-blower.
October 26, 2019 -
The ‘Deep State’ Exists to Battle People Like Trump
The president and his allies have responded with
fury. Those damning testimonials are part of a
political vendetta by “Never Trumper”
bureaucrats, members of a “deep state” bent on
undermining the will of the people, they assert.
But what is this “deep state”? Far
from being a tool of political corruption, the
Civil Service was created to be an antidote to
the very kind of corruption and self-dealing
that seems to plague this administration.
This development is disconcerting. If the deep
state is allowed to make its own policies against
the will of the elected officials why should we
bother with holding elections?
The Democrats are stupid to applaud this and to
even further these schemes. They are likely to
regain the presidency in 2024. What will they do
when all the Civil Service functionaries Trump will
have installed by then will organize to ruin their
policies?
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