1. One of the minor revolutions of the era is that the New York Times is now talking about the Deep State without quotes, as if it were a real thing.pic.twitter.com/JW4mT1mI0W
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4. All presidents clash with the administrative state (which has a status quo bias): Nixon had to an end run around national security establishment to negotiate with China, Obama the same with Iran. But Trump's clashes have gone deeper.
5. The thing with Trump is that he's a narcissist who has only ever run a family business (one that often skirted the law). So by temperament & experience, he's not used to obeying norms. The administrative state is all about rules and norms.
6. A worrying undercurrent of the Trump era -- one which the next president will have to confront -- is that in response to Trump's lawlessness the administrative state has developed the habit of disobeying the president: not just slow-walking but ignoring his orders.
7. Trump is bad but we'll need to have a reckoning with how the insubordination of the administrative (rather than, as constitution requires, congressional checks) became main way to contain him. That's a problem. More thoughts here: https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-deep-state/ …
When people refer to the deep state aren’t they talking about this, but also and especially the intelligence services, which are immune to democratic control and have demonstrably subverted democracy here and abroad without regard to who holds elected office?
The hilarious thing is that the admin state is usually the least scary thing...mostly fairly lazy bureaucrats obsessed w. procedure and rules and whether they have a window in their office
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