(Small point of order: Musk is both head of Doge and not dog, depending on who you ask and what is more legitimate at the time. They are really running the scoreboard on the secrecy.)

Or maybe we should look at a neutral party. FBI Director Kash Patel is not a member of Doge himself, and he literally published a whole book on the deep state just two years ago. “It’s worth being very clear about who we’re talking about,” Patel writes in Government gangersAnd yes, this is the real name of the current book of the current FBI director, “because the deep state likes to act in the shadows using Arcane bureaucracy, opaque legitimate minutia, hidden levers of power and political players that are largely unknown to the American public.”

Regarding. Also? Doge. The agency has undertaken the most horrible corners of the US bureaucracy to launch its invasions. To justify the shooting, it tried to make legal distinctions so opaque, so few, that it was recently reprimanded in court. It used an exemption intended to help workers on board faster on board to install SpaceX employees at the Federal Aviation Administration before anyone knows it is happening.

The only thing that is missing is Gamesmanhip, because Doge is the kind of man who plays Jenga with a hammer.

Or if you need a more exact definition, let history be a guide. The term “deep state” does not have its roots in the driving-time-talking radio, but in the 1970s Turkey, where a number of unelected officials seized power within political structures.

“It is a phrase that generally refers to a kind of shadow or parallel government system in which not -official or publicly unknown individuals play important roles in defining and implementing state policy,” the historian Ryan Gingeras writes in Last rites for a ‘pure bandit’: clandestine service, historiography and the origin of the Turkish ‘deep state’. In Turkey, those shadows were mainly thrown by military figures, not youth, but you get the point.

There are at least signs that people are starting to see on the dog for what it is. Republicans had hard protests in the city halls, even in deep red districts. It became so bad that members of the GOP house were told to stop meeting with voters in person. The Supreme Court handed the agency its first major defeat at that level of the judiciary. Improper sacked workers start returning to their work.

“Deep condition is limited,” Patel writes. “It depends on many people who have no idea what’s going on, or to believe that what the deep state is doing is actually good. If these people stop listening, the deep state begins to lose control. “

The effects of Doge’s cuts are increasingly impossible to ignore, or to confuse with any greater benefit. However, it will lose control, whether someone in power can see that this is the thing they have warned against. Or if they can take care of themselves.

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What else do we read

🔗 How Elon Musk had his way to the FAA muscle, A great details here about Doge’s increasing influence on the FAA, an agency that is with possible conflicts of interest for Elon Musk. (Bloomberg)

🔗 Concept of Trump Executive Order is aimed at eliminating the Department of Education: Can a president end a cabinet level section on a cold? Most legal experts say differently, but it seems we will probably find out soon. (The Wall Street Journal)

🔗 Fact investigation Trump’s speech to Congress: Are facts still a thing? Do we still do facts? Let’s assume yes, at least a little while longer. (CNN)

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