Towards a Working Definition of the Deep State
After “Fake News,” one of the terms that is being increasingly being thrown around by the non-mainstream media is that of a “Deep State.” In this blog, I shall try to lay out a contribution to the understanding of that concept, which should help towards developing a working definition thereof. The term, as used by non-mainstream media, President Trump and his supporters has, usually, a rather negative connotation. It seems to refer mainly to an alleged “cabal” of American left-wing operatives, as well as men and women in power, who support Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Democrat policies. These operatives are normally found to be in the US intelligence community and the US Department of State. In television and film dramatizations, usage of the term “Deep State” is mainly limited to intelligence agencies, in the US and other countries. In that sense, the “Deep State” are those members of the intelligence community that have real power. As they are “deep,” they are, as a rule,...