The New York Analysis of Policy and Government begins a 2-part examination of “The Deep State.”
Americans vote for their federal elected officials, responding to calls to support different ideas, or liberal or conservative ideals. However, many complain that when the din of campaigning concludes and the newly elected assume their positions, nothing changes. Attention is being paid to the concept that unelected bureaucrats have gained an excess of power, and are using it to propagate policies that ignore the will of the electorate.
Tom Tancredo, writing for Breitbart warns “We are witnessing the unraveling of the fabric of constitutional government, and only a fool can believe it will end well…And folks, in the words of Al Jolson, you ain’t seen nothing yet. It’s probably going to get worse…efforts have at least three obvious things in common: desperation born of utter shock at Trump’s election victory; self-righteous elitist arrogance; and the active participation and support from the nation’s major media organizations. Yet, there is another novel element interwoven in these events that is even more dangerous – dangerous not simply as a political obstacle to Trump’s agenda, but inherently dangerous to the survival of our country. That novel element is the active, conscious subversion of lawful Presidential orders and initiatives by the permanent civil service apparatus called the ‘senior bureaucracy.’ It is also being called the ‘Deep State,’ meaning the part of the government that is immune to political appointment and political accountability.”
The victory of Donald Trump was an outlier. The candidate was an outsider to politics, and faced voracious opposition not only from Democrats and their media supporters, but also from some within his own party, as well from entrenched bureaucrats. The level of dissent he encountered even before taking office, and the leaks arising from within federal agencies seeking to discredit his agenda, is unprecedented.
Zack Beauchamp writing in VOX, notes the “permanent state” opposition to the winner of the 2016 contest: “’Selectively disclosing details of private conversations monitored by the FBI or NSA gives the permanent state the power to destroy reputations from the cloak of anonymity. This is what police states do’ Eli Lake, a neoconservative columnist at Bloomberg View, wrote in a column…Glenn Greenwald, the editor of the left-wing publication the Intercept, wrote something making basically the same point as Lake’s column — an ideological convergence that I’m not sure has ever happened and probably never will again.”
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Many are beginning to ask how powerful the “Deep State”, currently comprised mainly of appointees of the Obama Administration, truly is.
PJ media expresses its concern. “Welcome to the Deep State, the democracy-sapping embeds at the heart of our democracy who have not taken the expulsion of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party lightly. They realize that the Trump administration poses a mortal threat to their hegemony, and so have enlisted an army of Democrats, some Republicans, the ‘neverTrumpumpkin’… die-hards, leftist thugs, Black Lives Matter and anybody else they can blackmail, browbeat or enlist. They mean business…So what must Trump do now? First, complete his cabinet. Second, fire every fireable federal employee in the leak-prone agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency. Third, start taking operational security seriously. Fourth, assume everything you say will leak to the media and be spun as malevolently as possible. Fifth, trust nobody.”
Ryan McMaken, writing for the Mises Wire, explains what the Deep State is: “…the Deep State is nothing more than agencies and individuals within the US government that have their own interests and their own agendas. Only the most naïve observers of any government would deny that life-long entrenched bureaucrats don’t have their own interests separate from both the public and the public figures who — unlike officials at the CIA — are subject to public oversight and to elections.”
The report concludes tomorrow.