Morning Joe Sounds Alarm on Poll: Most Americans Now Believe ‘Deep State’ Secretly Directs U.S. Policy
Morning Joe thinks that President Donald Trump’s ravings about the “deep state” are beginning to take hold.
A Monmouth University poll that the MSNBC panel reacted to — with astonishment — found a majority of Americans believes that “national policy is being manipulated or directed by a ‘Deep State’ of unelected government officials.”
Per Monmouth, while few Americans are very familiar with the actual term “Deep State” (they’re clearly not watching their Hannity), “when the term is described as a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy, nearly 3-in-4 (74%) say they believe this type of apparatus exists in Washington.”
“This is real,” Mika Brzezinski said on Morning Joe, noting the president “may be on to something” with his persistent attacks on U.S. intelligence agencies.
Carol Lee, NBC News political reporter, argued the poll is “a direct result of what we’ve seen the president try to do which is sew doubt” about “the FBI and other agencies.”
“It’s a very dangerous time,” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said. “Real challenges for an inexperienced president.”
“It’s a very dangerous thing when most of a country believes a small group in the country is manipulating decisions,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically in countries that begin to break down.”
After describing his experience reporting from the Middle East, Ignatius added, “then you get a situation where a demagogic leader — gosh think of who that might be — that appeals to precisely that feeling people have, and then you really start to go over the edge.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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