Great find!
When I posted this on Twitter they banned me - again. Can’t have anyone admit a Deep State exists from the Democrat and Republican side from 2014 were talking about it before Trump ran for president.
Read the essay and see how closely that tracks to what happened since the coup attempt. Cohen, Manafort, Stone etc all went via the Virginia and SDNY.
Even the New York Times admits the SDNY is “sovereign” - which is what the Deep State means in relations to the elected leaders.
“In past presidential transitions, the storied office, long known to be so independent of Washington that some people referred to it as the Sovereign District of New York, has in large measure moved forward unaffected by politics.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/nyregion/preet-bharara-us-attorney.html
Then there was Chuck Schumer’s threat about the intelligence agencies against the president.