The Deep State Is Kind of Awesome | NYT Opinion
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Published 2024-03-26
We went on a road trip to find out. As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us. They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching “Star Trek” reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon.
Sure, our tax dollars pay them, but as you’ll see in the video above, what a return on our investment we get!
When we hear “deep state,” instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better.
But if Donald Trump is re-elected and enacts Schedule F, that could change. He would have the power to eviscerate the so-called deep state and replace our public servants with people who work for him, not us.
In the video above, you’ll meet a few of our hard-working American public servants, and we hope you’ll agree that they’re not scary at all. In fact, they’re kind of awesome.
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All Comments (21)
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ah, here we go step 1: "it's not happening" step 2: "it's happening but only a little" step 3: "it's happening and it's a good thing"
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Compare NY times video about deep state with John Harris video.
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I hope whoever did this feels ashamed of themselves.
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Wait. I thought it didn't exist.
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This comment section is an encouraging indication of the Times' popularity and credibility. May it continue to diminish.
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Probably the most disingenuous piece of “journalism” I have ever seen. Seriously dystopian
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FREE ASSANGE
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OMG, how much did the cia pay you for this tripe??????
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What you get when the system is getting desperate 👀
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I would like to point out that none of these people are what Trump is talking about...
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Imagine letting a democracy be a democracy
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4:06 "...just because we don't know about it doesn't make it suspicious". LOL! Yeah it does. When, in an open society, they take our money to supposedly represent us and refuse to be candid about what they're up to then the word 'suspicious' is justified. This video is a terrible affront to common sense.
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And just what has happened to the water in Flint, MI? Nothing!
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The New York Times has the stay at home writers that worked at the National Enquirer
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This isn't going to change any minds, unfortunately. It plays like a puff piece of propagandistic cherry-picking. There's an excellent point, which is kind of buried, about Trump inciting paranoia based on the unknown, but unfortunately the examples are just on way too small of a scale. I imagine everyone in the country could agree that there are currently at least 4 or 5 decent people employed by the government who do helpful things for America. What's missing here is a bigger explanation of why this deep-state notion has been so effective (I believe it's because small-scale government systems are susceptible to chaos and dysfunction generated from innocent mistakes and/or isolated individuals who aren't doing their jobs well; a far-fetched secret ring of bad actors isn't necessary).
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This is one of the oddest takes I’ve ever seen from the NYT
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Now go to Langley and Quantico
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What a joke the NYC times are.
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Lol - important part was said in one line 'there has no shortage of examples of government overreach, government spend ' - you should have done a video on that . Suddenly media is covering the good aspects.
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Did @johnnyharris have editorial oversite on this video?
