Liberals often deny the existence of the Deep State. Thus we see columns like this, in the New York Times: “What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn’t Exist.” And this one by David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker: “There Is No Deep State.”
But on today’s episode of CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt acknowledged something that is effectively a synonym for the Deep State.
Describing the challenges facing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE] undertaking to render the federal government more efficient and less costly, Hunt said:
“There is this kind of saying in Washington that, at the end of the day, the building always wins. And by the building, they mean the infrastructure that has been built in all these places, so that even when you do try to do something, the building itself will push…
