There was no deep state inside the Trump administration. There were people willing to speak truth to power and prevent the President from doing illegal things, not to prevent him from implementing a lawful agenda.
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The Blue Line is running. The trains arrive. The system works. But the people maintaining it are still flown in from China, the contract that keeps it running is approaching expiration, and there is no public maintenance budget.
Lateefah Mayaki
Whether it was Covid, Trump's advancing age, or his attempted overthrow of the 2020 election that made Trump totally lose faith in everyone but himself, the big man now seems inclined to listen only to the voices in his own head. There's no intellectual movement here, just a cult of personality. There's no one to argue with, because nothing that's happening is based on an argument in the first place.
Noah Smith
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato — The Republic