Trump, Sanders and the decline of the "Deep State"?

An Oligarchy Has Broken Our Democracy. It Must Be Dislodged  :  Information Clearing House - ICH


The calculus of the Deep State has been
upset by Donald Trump, a narcissistic
pseudo-populist billionaire, who,
ironically, is a symptom of all the
pathologies within the Deep State. His
followers may be misguided, and Trump is
all too ready to offer them scapegoats,
but they instinctively sense that there
is something deeply wrong with the
status quo.


At the other end of the political spectrum,
Bernie Sanders has overthrown the
current model of elite financing of
candidates. Tens of thousands of his
energetic followers – Sanders’s average
contribution is under $30 – actively seek a return
to the New Deal and the Great Society. 


The Deep State may yet reassert itself
through money and fear, but the 2016
election looks to be the first ballot of
a longer-term national referendum on
what it has made of our society.