'Deep state' contagion has spread beyond impeachment
The deep state is the right's new bogeyman.
I'd wager that until fairly recently, few people had ever heard the phrase. I'd also bet that roughly 99 percent of those who fling the term around have no idea that it's borrowed from Turkish politics.
The idea of a deep state, or "state within a state," is that there are undemocratic forces within the permanent bureaucracy, the military and the intelligence services who pursue their own
