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This is the deep state that the New York Times (arguably among the most friendly media outlets to the party now in power) recently declared to be "awesome:" nytimes.com/video/opini…
a mere few years after declaring the same deep state "doesn't exist" when the other party had formal power and was said to be fighting that non-existent deep …
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This is the deep state that the New York Times (arguably among the most friendly media outlets to the party now in power) recently declared to be "awesome:" https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009356253/trump-deep-state.html
a mere few years after declaring the same deep state "doesn't exist" when the other party had formal power and was said to be fighting that non-existent deep state: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/americas/what-happens-when-you-fight-a-deep-state-that-doesnt-exist.html
The example of the laptop is a good one to show exactly how this works in reality, that the party formally in power in some ways has less real power than the party formally out of power, if the latter is supported by the unelected bureaucracy, and the former is not.