NYTimes Writer: Trump is Right. But The “Deep State” Are The "Good Guys!”

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NYTimes Writer: Trump is Right. But The “Deep State” Are The "Good Guys!”

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'What Trump calls the ‘deep state’ in the United States is protecting the American people and protecting the Constitution. It’s a positive thing in this sense.'

That’s a direct quote from New York Times’ columnist James B. Stewart responding to Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today Show.

No real attempt to hide it. In fact Stewart is selling book that seemingly documents it.

He continued, “Well, you meet these characters in my book, and the fact is, in a sense, he’s right. There is a deep state. There is a bureaucracy in our country who has pledged to respect the Constitution, respect the rule of law. And as Director James Comey told me, ‘Thank goodness for that,’ because they are protecting the Constitution and the people when individuals – we don’t have a monarch, we don’t have a dictator – they restrain them from crossing the boundaries of law.”

So this is the new brainwash: “The Deep State is necessary as a check and balance on power.”

My mother had a phrase for things like this: “the unmitigated gall.”
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Re: NYTimes Writer: Trump is Right. But The “Deep State” Are The "Good Guys!”

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There was always a "Deep State", but it was more a "This has to be done, and if we go to prison for doing dodgy things prevent Armageddon, we will do our duty."

Not what they're up to now.
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“The Deep State is necessary as a check and balance on power.”

Whose power? Trump's or the presidency's? I'm sure that they'd answer the latter but that brings up the follow-up question: then where was the Deep State during Obama's excesses, e.g., Fast & Furious, IRS-gate or any of the other times that the Deep State was weaponized in support of the socialists' goals? Why, if one didn't know any better, one would get the impression that it is almost in point of fact that the Deep State is primarily an arm of the a particular political party -- and that calls into question its ability to actually be a proper and impartial check on anything. [/Sarc]

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That man said shithead in Kruat
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Scott Free wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:36 amWhy, if one didn't know any better, one would get the impression that it is almost in point of fact that the Deep State is primarily an arm of the a particular political party -- and that calls into question its ability to actually be a proper and impartial check on anything. [/Sarc]
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