Guest post by Ted Malloch, author of The Plot to Destroy Trump
Sometimes art truly does imitate life. “Deep State” is a fictional television miniseries about a retired MI6 agent called back to do just one more job.
Sound familiar?
In the real world, the Deep State is synonymous with a shadow government—a permanent yet formless administrative state that exists in contrast to the tangible public structures we’ve all come to know.
This Deep State is secretive. It entails a fluid network that includes intelligence agencies like the NSA, FBI, CIA, and Defense Department—agencies that run on secret surveillance, in-the-know Intel, and cryptic communication. Agencies that play for high stakes, willing to do anything to make sure they don’t lose it all. This Deep State isn’t your local town council or the Department of Agriculture. In other words, it ain’t your grandpa’s government.
The term has been thrown around in political circles for years, but it quickly reentered our national discourse in early 2016 when Trump talked about a cabal—a secret political faction—that operated in Washington DC of unelected officials—that “swamp” that had to be drained, as he so demanded.
Back in 2014 Eric Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, exposed the reach of government surveillance, saying: “There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there.”1
1 Garvin, Glenn. “Is the Deep State Real—and is it at war with Donald Trump?” Miami Herald. Feb 2 2018. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article 198038824.html.
Internet activist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange—who has gained international recognition as an advocate for truth—publicly released a trove of classified CIA documents that have been dubbed the “Deep State Files.”
Following an arrest in 2010, Assange has lived under political asylum granted by Ecuador since 2012, where, to this day, he currently lives at their embassy in London. Assange, who can’t leave his confined space, rarely speaks to outsiders and has almost no human interaction. Clearly, the stakes for going against this Deep State are high.
Perhaps it is Mike Lofgren, a former congressional aide, who accurately captures the essence of the Deep State, calling it “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the for- mal political process.”2
Its origins echo the long-standing politico term “military-industrial complex,” first referenced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address when he discussed its potential risks: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Some believe the military-industrial complex makes up only the private part of the Deep State. However, it also involves leaders in finance and technology who, too, are tied to the Intelligence Community and defense establishment.
In his book The New Freedom, published in 1913, Woodrow Wilson, US president during the First World War, had this to say, “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
Make no mistake: the Deep State is the central actor in the Red November plot to destroy the President.
Without it, the whole thing would not exist.
This Deep State works together to help fulfill their collective yet sometime conflicting political agendas in hopes of extending its ever-growing reach.
To do so, they orchestrate either for or against a political candidate come November.
And they were and are against this President Donald Trump as is evidenced repeatedly and in the latest cowardly act an anonymous op-ed in the failing New York Times demonstrating the resistance and thwarting of democracy inside this Administration.
This is the Deep State in spades
2 Longley, Robert. “The ‘Deep State’ Theory explained.” Thoughtco. Jan 31 2018. https://www.thoughtco.com/deep-state-definition-4142030.
