Readers Blog: Be afraid of ‘deep state’, not Trump

In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the rise of the military-industrial-complex and its potential to have an overbearing influence on government.

Today journalists like Glenn Greenwald warn us about the “deep State” which he explains is the “agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions.

They stay and exercise power even as presidents who are elected come and go. They typically exercise their power in secret... barely subject to democratic accountability if they’re subject to it at all.”