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I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
by prottog 3y ago
I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
- l33t233372 3y agoThe term deep state was first used popularly far after these things were made public.
- George83728 3y agoUse of the term dates back decades, and it's popularity accelerated through Bush the Younger's reign (for obvious reasons I think, Bush was widely perceived as an idiotic puppet, a theatrical figurehead for the real government (e.g. Cheney and co.)) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&yea...