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"Deep State" Inflection Point

Thursday, August 8, 2019 9:36 AM

The "Deep State” descriptor is an attempt to deflect attention away from Trump’s Deep Despotic State.

Cudos to Chuck Park in his admitted better late-than-never resistance.

— Carl


The Washington PosAugust 8 at 9:11 AM


I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s ‘Complacent State.’ 

So I’m resigning.

By Chuck Park, member of the 157th class of commissioned U.S. Foreign Service officers


Chuck Park’s resignation from the Foreign Service is effective Thursday.

"According to a certain type of right-leaning conspiracy theorist, that would make me part of “The Deep State” — a shadowy 

government within the government that puts its own interests above the expressed wishes of the electorate. Adherents to 

this theory believe that thousands of federal workers like me are plotting furiously to subvert the Trump administration at 

every turn. Many on the left, too, hope that such a resistance is secretly working to save the nation from the worst impulses 

of President Trump.

"They have it all wrong. Your federal bureaucracy under this president? Call it “The Complacent State” instead."

"My son, born in El Paso on the American side of that same Rio Grande… turned 7 this month. I can no longer justify to 

him, or to myself, my complicity in the actions of this administration. That’s why I choose to resign."



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