deep state

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/29/2020
  

  How America Escapes Its Conspiracy-Theory Crisis

  by David Rhode

  Trump's indulgence of conspiracy theorists risks casting the government as the enemy of the people. A new social contract is needed to ensure that this breach doesn't widen. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/26/19
  

  The ‘Deep State’ Exists to Battle People Like Trump

  by Margaret O’Mara

  A merit-based system for hiring federal employees was created in reaction to the rampant corruption of the Gilded Age.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  10/8/19
  

  The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive

  by Ronald Radosh

  The American right has advanced nutty conspiracy theories for decades. But the one we’re about to see play out will make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  12-2-18
  

  The Congressman Who Created His Own Deep State. Really.

  When he feared communists were infiltrating America, Larry McDonald took extreme measures — building his own intelligence-gathering arm.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6-16-18
  

  Trump uses IG report to spread 'deep state' conspiracy

  by Julian Zelizer

  Trump has done more than anyone else to bring the fringe conspiracy concept of a "deep state" into the mainstream, with the help of his son Donald Jr.