At the risk of wandering too far into the weeds, I want to try and define what is meant by “deep state,” a term of art used to describe much of the government Trump Inc. now presides over.To begin with, when Steve Bannon, White House strategist and Trump whisperer, uses the term deep state, his definition is fundamentally conspiratorial. But more about that later.First, deep state, as I understand it, refers to those institutions that are run by career people who [...]
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