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Deep State Bureaucratic Continuity Explanation

The mainstream political-science account: career civil servants, intelligence agencies, and the military establishment persist across elected administrations by design, creating institutional inertia and occasional friction with elected leadership, without evidence of a coordinated secret plot.

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Deep State Conspiracy Claimpopularised from 2016
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What Is the Deep State?

What the deep state is: the academic term for persistent state bureaucracies, and the separate populist claim of a secret cabal controlling government.