The really obvious has been officially confirmed

[demi-conservative]

Liberals have long scoffed at President Trump’s claim there is a “deep state” undermining him, but this week, a New York Times editorial board member wrote in a piece Tuesday that not only is Trump right, but the “deep state is alive and well.”
In a piece titled, “They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public Servants. Let us now praise these not-silent heroes,” Michelle Cottle, a member of the editorial board, wrote:

President Trump is right: The deep state is alive and well.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...live-and-well/

"It doesn't exist!!!!!"

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"It exists, but they are good guys. Really."

[oxmixmudd]

"It doesn't exist!!!!!"

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"It exists, but they are good guys. Really."

What the NYTimes failed to understand is the sort of idiots that write and read the articles at breitbart. Here is the money quote that 'admits' there is a 'deep state'

Source: above citing the NTY

President Trump is right: The deep state is alive and well. But it is not the sinister, antidemocratic cabal of his fever dreams. It is, rather, a collection of patriotic public servants — career diplomats, scientists, intelligence officers and others — who, from within the bowels of this corrupt and corrupting administration, have somehow remembered that their duty is to protect the interests, not of a particular leader, but of the American people.

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What breitbart is doing here is shamelessly perverting the entire tenor of the article to purposefully stir up yet more hatred of those that oppose Trump by those that support him. It is an irresponsible trash piece. And it is a good example of why I do not read that pile of bovine feces.

There is no 'deep state', just people that still have a conscience, people that still care about right and wrong.