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And US defense officials bypassed Obama when they shared intelligence with allies who then shared it with Assad. There were multiple instances during the Obama administration where generals publicly disagreed with him and were accused of undermining him (especially with re to Afghanistan and Syria), including when McChrystal and his staff made comments to Rolling Stone against senior White House officials. If your definition of the deep state is the military undermining the President, that was a phenomenon well before Trump's first term. That's just politics.
I think the fact that Trump has been able completely redefine the parameters of American foreign policy is evidence against the type of deep state pushed by right wingers.
Correct, Obama was also frustrated by the deep state on several occasions.
Do you think you can restate the idea of the deep state pushed by the right-wingers, in a way that the right-wingers will recognize as their own?
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