1. So. "The Deep State." Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
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2. I think I first heard the phrase "Deep State" a couple of years ago in reference to forces in Egypt & Turkey resisting elected government
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3. With the FBI interference in the election, I thought the Deep State was a useful short hand in USA politics:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/794539020613132288 …
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4. After election, I thought Deep State useful short hand for likely bureaucratic resistance to Trump:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/798195618871021572 …
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5. There's this use, which reminds me that term has earlier pre-history in literature on Kennedy assassination:https://twitter.com/normative/status/838537544455360512 …
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6. After a while I came to be uneasy with term: too conspiratorial, and implied (wrongly) a monolithic, centralized state-within-state
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7. Rather than a centralized Deep State, I think it's more accurate to talk about a factionalized permanent government.
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This recalls another term from the assassination-theorist community: Peter Dale Scott's "deep politics."
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Yes, when I first heard Deep State it called to mind Deep Politics.
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