Subject: Re: "We need a 4th branch of Gov't"
before 2016 than since 2016 because it had a deep state

If you are referring to the Deep State of RW myth, it has never existed.

If you are referring to a functioning government that served the citizens, fine.

We may not have a Deep State now, but we have something much worse: an autocrat and his oligarch cronies. Sure smells a lot like Russia.