Democrats appear laughable when claiming that the Deep State doesn’t exist since even their own preferred news outlets once joyously covered it – until doing so worked against their political narratives:
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THE WASHINGTON POST:
Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump
January 31, 2017
(Excerpt)
Less than two weeks into Trump’s administration, federal workers are in regular consultation with recently departed Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to push back against the new president’s initiatives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-within-federal-workers-push-back-against-trump/2017/01/31/c65b110e-e7cb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
BLOOMBERG NEWS:
Washington Bureaucrats Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump’s Agenda
– Across the government, career staffers are finding ways to continue old policies, sometimes just by renaming a project December 18, 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2017-12-18/washington-bureaucrats-are-chipping-away-at-trump-s-agenda
THE HILL
Trump White House Clashes with Resistant Civil Servants
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317238-trump-white-house-clashes-with-resistant-civil-servants/
POLITICO
Federal Workers Turn To
Encryption to Thwart Trump
– Agency employees are turning to Signal and other incognito forms of communication to express their dissent.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/federal-workers-signal-app-234510
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And there are a ton of other examples proving that unelected government workers have been illegally supplanting the electorate’s agenda with their own.