Deep State
Nick Name
The Deep State
- Idea that there are lifetime non-elected government officials that really run the US government
- They push their own agendas
- Part of the bureaucracy
- Historically considered to be a "conspiracy theory"
- Gaining more traction as credible after the 2016 Trump election
- CIA and FBI may have had hidden agendas
- Public statements about officials "resisting" the Trump administration