Tracing the birth of a conspiracy theory.

They like the term because it sounds so dark and vague and scary.

From what I can tell, the term was taken by hyperbolic MAGA talk radio propagandist Mark Levin, and that's when it entered the movement's bloodstream in full.

Trump overheard the words once.
 
Something as simple as that is all it takes. Look what happened with CRT. Trump caught wind of it and it was off to the races.
Fuck YOU and you Marxist CRT!!!!!!
You neo-Bolsheviks have absolutely no self-awareness AT ALL.
🙄
 
The deep state conspiracy theory has had a corrosive affect.

Confidence in government’s career employees drops​

The share of Americans who have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in career employees at government agencies who are not appointed by a president has declined by 9 percentage points since late 2018, from 61% to 52%.

Roughly one-in-ten adults (9%) now say they have a great deal of confidence in career government employees, while 44% have a fair amount of confidence. A third say they have not too much confidence in career civil servants, and 14% say they have no confidence in them at all.

Confidence in government employees has declined among both Republicans and Democrats since 2018. Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party, 38% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in civil servants, down from 48% in December 2018.


Chart shows after 2020 election, partisans flip in confidence in presidential appointees
Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, nearly two-thirds (65%) have a great deal (14%) or a fair amount (51%) of confidence in career civil servants, down from 71% nearly four years ago.
 
The deep state conspiracy theory has had a corrosive affect.

Confidence in government’s career employees drops​

The share of Americans who have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in career employees at government agencies who are not appointed by a president has declined by 9 percentage points since late 2018, from 61% to 52%.

Roughly one-in-ten adults (9%) now say they have a great deal of confidence in career government employees, while 44% have a fair amount of confidence. A third say they have not too much confidence in career civil servants, and 14% say they have no confidence in them at all.

Confidence in government employees has declined among both Republicans and Democrats since 2018. Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party, 38% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in civil servants, down from 48% in December 2018.


Chart shows after 2020 election, partisans flip in confidence in presidential appointees
Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, nearly two-thirds (65%) have a great deal (14%) or a fair amount (51%) of confidence in career civil servants, down from 71% nearly four years ago.
It is all part of the Trump Playbook

Breed mistrust of Career Civil Service among the public and pave the way to replace them with an appointed partisan workforce loyal to Trump
 

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