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I argue often w/ some conservatives about the “deep state” rhetoric. I don’t believe we have one. “Deep states” make people disappear in the night, monitor citizens, use blackmail and spies on citizens. We do have a permanent government though. 1 washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
This typically deeply-reported pierce by @IgnatiusPost quotes a few folks from w/i the IC’s permanent government. They are concerned about @RepRatcliffe not being an acceptable DNI. That is the president and the Senate’s job to judge, not the permanent government’s. 2
As Dr. Larry Arnn, president of @Hillsdale, has often said on my radio show and other places is that the fundamental question of the day is whether the government will rule the people or the people rule the government. It is supposed to be the latter. @RepRatcliffe is qualified.3
What @RepRatcliffe is not is part of the permanent government. Opposition to him as DNI based on this prejudice against outsiders to D. C. and the IC is illegitimate, and fundamentally at odds with a free people. Our government is not an aristocracy of tenured bureaucrats. 4
