Elites Love The ‘Deep State’ Because They Loathe The American People
Marco Rubio
Left-wing elites want to protect the ‘deep state’ because it shields them from accountability as they pursue their own agendas.
Donald Trump has the incredible ability to bait his political detractors into becoming exactly what he accuses them of being.
If Trump says liberal elites hate democracy, they invent a radical legal theory to keep him off the ballot. If Trump says Democrats are weaponizing the justice system, they bring novel lawsuits designed to bankrupt him. And if Trump says there are people in government working against the American people, The New York Times brags that “the ‘deep state’ is actually kind of awesome.”
It comes as no surprise that America’s self-proclaimed “newspaper of record” is leading the charge to defend the “deep state.” After all, this is the paper that published an anonymous op-ed in 2018 — two months before the midterm elections — from “a senior [Trump] official” claiming to be “quiet resistance within the administration.”
That, my friends, is the very definition of the “deep state”: a government employee going beyond the bounds of his job description and the Constitution to undermine a democratically elected president.
There are hundreds of thousands of men and women in government who do good work, day in and day out. They do their jobs as defined by law and carry out the policies set by the president. But there are others who act as self-appointed “protectors” of institutions against politicians they don’t like. What they and The New York Times ignore is that our system of government vests power in those politicians because they were elected by Americans. When bureaucrats subvert democratically elected officials, they’re really subverting the people who voted those officials into office — people like you.
Weaponizing the Government Against the People
Unfortunately, I also see this in my work on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The vast majority of the men and women in the intelligence community are focused on protecting Americans from foreign threats, but there are some who care more about politics than public service, recoil at the thought of congressional oversight, and think the American people can’t be trusted on matters of national security. This is a particularly dangerous form of delusion because it’s not just a dereliction of duty, but leads to secrecy and intrigue that undermine the important work of the intelligence community and public trust in vital institutions.