Edward Curtin has written an excellent companion piece to my recent LRC articles (here and here) concerning the post-WWII creation of synthetic political ideologies for psywar and agitprop by the intelligence community of the National Security State. This has been going on for so long that to admit one is still being taken for a ride is equivalent to admitting to gullibility so profound that it must be denied. It is one thing criticize the politicians you hate – George W. Bush and Donald Trump for liberal Democrats and Bill Clinton and Obama for conservative Republicans – and to call … Continue reading The Deep State, Now and Then