The New York Times once claimed the Deep State “doesn’t exist.” Now, it admits it is real and says it “makes our lives better.”
In a brazen, North Korea-style propaganda video entitled ‘It Turns Out the “Deep State” Is Actually Kind of Awesome,’ the Times spoke to several bureaucrats, talking up their role as “everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us.”
“As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us,” waxed the newspaper of record.
“They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching ‘Star Trek’ reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon,” it continued, working hard to humanize its subjects.
However, the people interviewed by the NYT were not the bureaucrats generally associated with the Deep State. They appeared to be regular public servants tasked with apolitical work such as monitoring asteroids, removing lead piping, and investigating companies employing illegal alien children in dangerous occupations.
Nevertheless, these run-of-the-mill officials were used to attack Donald Trump’s proposed Schedule F reforms. These would make replacing entrenched bureaucrats advancing leftist ideology and interventionist foreign policy easier.
Agenda-driven actors within the Deep State disrupted several of the previous Trump administration’s policies, such as withdrawing troops from Syria.
