I've Decided What "Deep State" Means to The Right
Deep State = any political or military element actively engaged in protecting the Constitution against a plutocracy/kleptocracy/autocracy and exposing said "'ocracy" for what it truly is.
The right has coopted the term from general political parlance where it means something like "political or military agents working to secretly guide the government along their own agenda". They have kept the nefarious connotations of secrecy and manipulation, but they've made the term applicable only to left wing agenda. In fact, they've placed all patriotic acts by left wingers who seek to expose them under this term in order that it may carry those nefarious connotations.
I do NOT have a problem with the existence of a deep state as defined in my first two lines (ie what it has come to mean for the right). What I do have a problem with is the use of the term by the right to caste these left wing patriotic acts in a negative light (nefarious connotation). It is just another example of the right directing the narrative. In this case, it's the right choosing the meaning of the words they use to write the narrative.
So what is the answer? One word: Transparency. Sure, FBI agents cannot come forward with highly classified material and hand it over directly to the NYT with permission to publish their name along with the details of the reports. However, we ought to be able to see the salient parts of Comey's memos, those bits that truly damn tRump. We need to stop pussy footing around and have some material made public!
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You mean it was that simple the whole time?! 
