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It is a a term popularly used by Bannon
From Government Executive magazine - DECONSTRUCTING THE DEEP STATE (published during 45's first term in 2017)
A month after President Trump took the oath of office, his chief strategist offered a controversial description of what Americans, including the 2 million career civil servants Trump now leads in the executive branch, could expect from the new president: Every day would be a battle for “deconstruction of the administrative state,” said Stephen Bannon, the man frequently described as the mastermind behind Trump’s nationalist agenda.
Bannon is no longer in the White House, but his remarks at a conservative political conference in February continue to reverberate through government.
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Bannon is no longer in the White House, but his remarks at a conservative political conference in February continue to reverberate through government.
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So you can tell whose nasty fingers are all over this.