1. So, let's talk about the Deep State.
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2. There's been an upsurge of talk about the Deep State. I feel party guilty for this because of tweets like thishttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/798934905933545472 …
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3. I've used the Deep State as a convenient twitter short hand for the permanent government that doesn't change with elections.
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4. Like "society" or "the military-industrial complex," the Deep State isn't something you can point to. It's a series of relationships
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@jacobinmag does a job of pointing out conceptual limits of idea of Deep State:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/deep-state-michael-flynn-leaks-federal-bureaucracy-trump/ …1 reply 30 retweets 94 likes -
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6. The "state" isn't homogenous or centralized but a defuse site of many power struggles.
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7. Instead of a Deep State, more accurate to talk about a factionalized Permanent Government.
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8. Within the Permanent Government there are clearly pro-Trump factions (parts of FBI) as well as anti-Trump ones.
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Come on Jeet. There's also statutes, standing law, US constitution, etc.. "Anti-Trump" is a stupid way to classify opposition.
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We've moved beyond Weber
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You lost me there. A lot of opposition you'll see is based on congressional statute (EPA), Constitution (Yates), APA 1946, etc.
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