The Deep State will not allow Trump to become POTUS

[lessOHmo]

Whatever it takes

 

[lessOHmo]

I'm ok with JD Vance

 

[Bray123]

They did already.

But they learned their lesson. NEVER AGAIN!

 

[Politruk]

There is a Deep State, but it is not what Trump thinks it is. It is a network of government agencies and private corporations that exists only to police the boundaries of the Overton Window and to preserve the "Washington Consensus" -- neoliberalism in economics, neoconservatism in foreign policy -- anything outside that range is frozen out of serious discussion. See The Deep State by long-time DC veteran Mike Lofgren. See also here.

 

[deckardB26354]

Where’s your source for your “information” there, lessHomo?

What?? You just pulled it out of your ass because you’re completely full of shit? Oh okay.

 

[Politruk]

See also:

Donald Trump, under the influence of Steve Bannon[8] and Vladimir Putin,[9][10] believes that a deep state was trying to undermine his presidency. Although he was impeached twice by the House of Representatives, the idea that the deep state was on the brink of stripping him of his powers was ridiculous since he was acquitted twice. Absent any meaningful punishment for his involvement in the Ukraine scandal and the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, his claim is that the impeachment proceedings themselves constituted interference by the deep state, which would be a poor show for a supposedly all-powerful conspiracy. Trump went so far as to hire Joe diGenova, a deep state conspiracy theorist, as one of his lawyers.[8] Deep state as used by Trump supporters is basically a code phrase for government employees who have sworn allegiance to the US Constitution as part of the terms of their employment, but peculiarly won't swear a "higher" allegiance to Trump personally.[11]

In reality, all that happened was that several government officials leaked information to the press to hold Trump publicly accountable. The truth is usually pretty boring.[6] As Michael Crowley has pointed out, there are always plenty of people in government seeking to hold on to or extend their power and take advantage of a weak or inexperienced president. Still, they are not organized into any grand conspiracy, not (generally) breaking the law, and not killing people for speaking out.[12]

The term is sometimes associated with other older concepts of secret and powerful forces in society, such as US President Dwight Eisenhower's warnings about a military-industrial complex gaining "unwarranted influence" over the government.[13] Before being used on the right in the Trump era, more left-wing and anti-authoritarian people like Edward Snowden were claiming that the U.S. civil service acts as a deep state,[14] or that George W. Bush was just a puppet for a cabal of shadowy figures led by Dick Cheney.[12] The more paranoid deep state theories are distinct from Eisenhower's vision in describing a unified deep state which does not merely seek influence over government, but already controls it all.

Sean Hannity insinuated that there was a deep state within Fox News because of an internal Fox News document that criticized him and also regarded Media Matters for America as a factual source of information.[15]