The heated controversy over the right wing's characterization of Donald Trump's chronic conflict with the U.S. intelligence community as the machinations of “the Deep State” has inevitably generated political pushback from more establishmentarian figures. Paul Pillar on this site and David Remnick in The New Yorker have dismissed the whole notion of the American Deep State as a figment of the right's overheated imagination. The U.S. government, operating as it does within the framework of American society, simply doesn't work that way.
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