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The term deep state was first used popularly far after these things were made public.
by l33t233372 3y ago
The 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...