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by prottog 1112 days ago
I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
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The term deep state was first used popularly far after these things were made public.
Use 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&yea...