December 8, 2017
The Deep State vs. Trump
By John Dietrich
Retired CIA station chief Scott Uehlinger claims there is a “Deep State.†He argued, “The Deep State is made up of thousands of similarly credentialed, remarkably “un-diverse†civil servants and political appointees who saw themselves promoted rapidly during the eight years of the Obama administration. The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.†Uehlinger is correct except for the fact that he exaggerates the role Obama has played in its creation. The “Deep State†had its greatest growth during the Roosevelt Administration when bureaucrats like Soviet asset Harry Dexter White recruited large numbers of communists and progressives to man the government. Most of the communists were eventually weeded out of government but the progressives for the most part remained. These progressives gradually gained control of most of the federal bureaucracy. Under President Obama, even many of the conservative holdouts were driven from the government.
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