Douglas Eckberg
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

While I’m a Never-Trumper and am convinced that the President is typically wrong and largely an embarrassment, I’m continually surprised at the efforts in the mainstream media to deny the existence of what he calls the “Deep State.”

For goodness sake, Harry Truman referred to it when Eisenhower was elected: “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike — it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.”

The sociologists Lee Rainwater and William Yancey referred to the same general entity in their book on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” They attributed resistance to getting new or innovative things done largely to “the permanent government,” which is to say the major bureaucratic agencies who have well-established relationships with leaders of Non-Governmental Agencies and other opinion-makers.

I could go on. It has long been known that the thing exists. Now it must be denied (vociferously!) because Trump complains about it. Had Barack Obama complained that it held up his agenda, news organizations would have had their best investigative reporters doing in-depth analyses of it. But that was not to be.

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