Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota): Accountability in the Deep State. Trump vs. the “deep state”: How the Administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance. Josh Marshall on Trump’s unseen battle with the US government. Trump appointees continue to erode government from within. Daniel Drezner on the beclowning of the executive branch in 2018. The infectious incompetence of the populists: The administrative state is rapidly deconstructing. Trump issues executive orders making it easier to fire federal workers.
Rebecca Ingber (BU): Bureaucratic Resistance and the National Security State. God bless the “deep state”: Trump ignores evidence of his own intelligence community on election hacking. “There is a reason we tried to kill this”: After Helsinki, the deep state fears Trump cannot be saved. Justin Weinstein-Tull (Stanford): State Bureaucratic Undermining. The troubled rise of the technocrat: Timothy Shenk reviews The Policy State: An American Predicament by Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek.
