{"id":32660,"date":"2018-03-22T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:18:43","slug":"american-public-troubled-by-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32660","title":{"rendered":"American Public Troubled by \u2018Deep State\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American Public Troubled by \u2018Deep State\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Although most Americans are unfamiliar with the term \u2018Deep State,\u2019 according to recent polling they are nevertheless skeptical of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy, John V. Walsh reports.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPublic Troubled by Deep State\u201d is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute tags to its recent poll<\/a>.\u00a0 Acknowledging that polling about the term \u201cDeep State\u201d is problematic because \u201cfew Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term \u2018Deep State,\u2019\u201d the pollsters at Monmouth defined the term as follows for their interviewees: \u201cThe term Deep State refers to the possible existence of a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department, as viewed with the Potomac River and Washington, D.C., in the background. (Defense Department photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Then they asked whether such a group exists.<\/p>\n

Monmouth reports the results as follows: \u201cNearly 3-in-4 (74%) say they believe this type of apparatus exists in Washington. This includes 27% who say it definitely exists and 47% who say it probably exists. Only 1-in-5 say it does not exist (16% probably not and 5% definitely not).\u201d<\/p>\n

These opinions do not follow a partisan divide. The report explains that belief in the Deep State\u2019s existence \u201ccomes from more than 7-in-10 Americans in each partisan group, although Republicans (31%) and independents (33%) are somewhat more likely than Democrats (19%) to say that the Deep State\u00a0definitely\u00a0exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

This leads the director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, Patrick Murray, to volunteer: \u201cWe usually expect opinions on the operation of government to shift depending on which party is in charge. But there\u2019s an ominous feeling by Democrats and Republicans alike that a \u2018Deep State\u2019 of unelected operatives are pulling the levers of power.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, there are some significant but not drastic racial and ethnic differences on this question. Says the report, \u201cAmericans of black, Latino and Asian backgrounds (35%) are more likely than non-Hispanic whites (23%) to say that the Deep State\u00a0definitely\u00a0exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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American Public Troubled by \u2018Deep State\u2019 Although most Americans are unfamiliar with the term \u2018Deep State,\u2019 according to recent polling they are nevertheless skeptical of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy, John V. Walsh reports. \u201cPublic Troubled by Deep State\u201d is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,199,19387,620,3531],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-deep-state","tag-john-v-walsh","tag-pentagon","tag-us-defense-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32661,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions\/32661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}