May 30, 2019
The “deep state” is no deeper than Donald Trump’s thinking. Deep dish pizza has more substance. The “deep state” mantra is just another conspiracy theory right up there with birtherism, Pizzagate, Newtown, Benghazi, Hillary’s e-mails, and many, many more. It has been misused to delegitimize any of Trump’s critics. Now Attorney General Barr is going to drag us down another rabbit hole hoping to find the “deep state.” I suspect what he will find is a group of dedicated civil servants just trying to do their jobs as opposed to temporary elected and appointed officials just trying to keep theirs.
In order to believe the “deep state” conspiracy theory, you have to believe that, before the 2016 elections, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and other agencies colluded to keep Trump from being president, and, having failed at that, plotted a coup d’etat to get Trump out of office. In addition, surreptitiously, they had to recruit a majority of the House of Representatives and a majority of the American public to go along with it. I got my phone call from the “deep state.” Did you get yours?
The Spin Doctor 