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There isn't a narrative it's an attempt to derail a narrative the people in charge of NYT don't like. Trump supporters are pushing the narrative of "Trump VS th
by Super_Jambo 10y ago
There isn't a narrative it's an attempt to derail a narrative the people in charge of NYT don't like. Trump supporters are pushing the narrative of "Trump VS the Deep State!". So people will google "Deep State" and NYT is using it's cred with liberals to try and shape their opinion.
See: https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Deep%20State https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Deep%20State
The same thing happened in WaPo and NYT with HRCs e-mail server. At some point the story is out there, your supporters are going to google it. You need to get a source they trust to report on it otherwise they'll end up somewher you don't control. So you report it and sail just as close as you can to "nothing to see here nothing to worry about!".
What does this article actually do:
Right away appeal to authority and answer the question "Does the US have a Deep State?":
"Not quite, experts say..." Phew! For a minute there I was worried but some random expert on Egypt got interviewed by the NYT and can say with clarity there is no shadowy cabal of three letter agency people pulling the strings! Lucky he could tell so easily really.
The rest of the article is trying to drift away from the idea of a secret cabal and instead push the idea that a "Deep State" is nothing more than the standard civil service in tension with their elected leaders. Yea sure.
- shard972 10y ago> The rest of the article is trying to drift away from the idea of a secret cabal and instead push the idea that a "Deep State" is nothing more than the standard civil service in tension with their elected leaders. Yea sure. It's so ridiculous it's not even funny anymore. Somehow people are justifying unnamed, unelected officials bringing down a government because they don't like who won the election. It's incredibly scary that some of the same people who would have defended snowden for his revelations on the deep state are now praying for the same deep state to enact a Coup d'état.
- mistermann 10y agoIt's amazing to me how 6 months ago, reddit (just as one example) saw problems, problems everywhere in the world, whereas their current recollection of that very same period in time seems to be something resembling nirvana.
- fareesh 10y agoIt used to be that if one's favoured candidate didn't get elected, people would wish the winning candidate the best and rally behind them. At this point a lot of the public has become so invested in having their worldview validated that they are wishing for something bad to happen out of sheer lust for vindication. The other day I saw a website called hillarybeattrump.org where people have created a pretend universe where Hillary won the election and have written full fledged fan fiction about it. Just seems a little over the top.
- GavinMcG 10y agoI think there might be something deeper going on than just "having their worldview validated" or "lust for vindication". It's also that the destructive and party-focused style of politics championed by Newt Gingrich has become deeply sown and has shaped how Congress functions. It used to be that if one's favored candidate didn't get elected, you'd still trust that the country's political leadership would take seriously their responsibility to govern and to do so in the best interests of everyone. Now it seems that the political leadership is most serious about party loyalty and appeasing the radical side of their base.