The Deep State

In separating politics from administration, creating the civil service weakened the political system and strengthened the administrative one. This was intentional.

George Friedman's take on the Deep State provides a broader perspective conservatives need to understand. There's more to this than a few spy agencies, virtually all of it calculated to undermine any and all conservative agendas, something it's achieved with great effectiveness since very shortly after its creation. For more on why this is a disaster for responsible government, everyone should read William Riorden's fascinating, century-old, very short Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. -- RDM

by George Friedman
March 16, 2017

There is something ominous-sounding in the deep state. It implies that beneath constitutionally ordained systems and principles, there is a deeper and more potent power in control of the nation. It implies a unified force deeply embedded in the republic that has its own agenda and the means to undermine the decisions of elected presidents and members of Congress. Its power derives from control of the mechanisms of power and being invisible.

The deep state is, in fact, a very…