Скачать или смотреть Deciphering the Deep State — with Josef Burton and Joshua Martin

he incident caused a major scandal in Turkey, and subsequent parliamentary investigations revealed the existence of a rogue network of intelligence officials, army officers, mafiosos and ultranationalists. Implicated in hundreds of killings over several decades, it was this network that the term “deep state” was coined to describe.

“This wasn’t just state repression,” Burton tells New Lines’ Joshua Martin. “The idea of the deep state is that there’s elements within the state which are just doing what they want, without any going back to the chain of command. They’re just doing it.”

For Americans, though, the term has taken on very different connotations. “The meaning shifted between this very specific historical phenomenon to any structure of power you don’t like,” Burton says. It became heavily associated with former President Donald Trump, who uses it to denigrate his political opponents and encourages his supporters to do the same — particularly in the months since August’s FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence. “It really raises the temperature,” says Burton.

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