The irresponsibility of people deploying "Deep State" metaphor from Turkey in the United States is so great.https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/945679188849188864 …
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Are you saying term isn't originally about Turkey? Turkey had a pervasive, united, hierarchical but opaque government that crossed the span of the administrative state. The US does not. Military industrial complex is a thing, and there's an Intel counterpart. Not a Deep State.
I'm saying that's not the connotation as used here. This is.https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446 …
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1. That connotation ought to be deployed by a phrase that doesn't already have a distinct meaning. 2. As you know, the notion that the FBI is inveterately pro-Clinton/anti-Trump is total BS. 3. Real civil liberties concerns need to be cordoned off from loons like Rooney.
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1. Too late. It has been used by people in this way for years. 2. True, but totally separate from use of pre-existing connotation. 3. True, and civil libertarians have made pains to do that all year.
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All that said, I have the same concerns about Whataboutism, which has a prior meaning but as used can't be divorced from Jim Crow era efforts to downplay Russian efforts to raise US civil rights concerns to distract fr own persecution of dissidents.
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