And it's always been conservative. How do we know this? Because, when some of the justification for the ruthless, behind-the-scenes antics went away, or lessened at least, with the end of the Soviet Union the 'deep state' turned on Democrats. So we know, but the bad stuff had a conservative cast to it all around -- violent, stupid and needlessly alienating. McCarthy was the deep state. Dulles was the deep state, and Rumsfeld and Cheney.
These were arrogant, lawless characters. We finally got caught out, publicly, in Vietnam but it didn't stop. Republicans played fast and loose with people's lives, international stability, and the law and nuclear holocaust, with the complicity of cowardly Democrats, and most were cowardly. Republicans held them hostage over defense. Cheney and Rumsfeld were particularly important in this. Republican ideology, for what little it was worth, went out the window.
Deficits? Pshaw. This paranoid deep state has done plenty of horrible stuff, most suspiciously when business interests were near at hand. Any excuse would do, however. Republicans are doing it now. Trump blowing up boats. Kennedy might have been about to back away from this shit when he got killed. Johnson, I don't know, but he had unsuspected depths of idealism, if only because he wanted not to be remembered as a bad character.
Nixon was classic. How many Americans got killed while yet another arrogant, lawless Republican played politics while people died? So never say Trump is anything new. We've been doing this shit forever. Trump is just open about it. And more stupid about because he is stupid. More carelessly destructive because he's a fucking louse. He's dong to America what he did to his business empire, running it right into the ground. We've always had these assholes.
A lot of good, responsible citizens would have resisted the evil, irresponsible stuff if we'd known. We had opportunities but we let them pass. We were always good Germans to a degree but our baggage has caught up with us. We were good Germans but not in a full-blown Nazi regime by a long shot. That has changed. Trump has changed it. Republicans have changed it. But don't think we were so pure before because we weren't. We had our shit just like everybody.