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DOGE Is the Deep State

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A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar! After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

The term “deep state” has its roots not in drive-time talk radio but in 1970s Turkey , where a bunch of unelected officials seized power within political structures.

Republicans have faced loud protests in town halls, even in deep red districts.

The Supreme Court has handed the agency its first major defeat at that level of the judiciary.

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semi-formal

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English

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