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    'Deep State' conspiracies thrive in our messy and divisive cultural wars

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Jul 13, 2018 4 minutes

    We are in a deep state time of conspiracies and invisible hands. Or so it seems.

    President Trump tweets about vast plots against him. Fox News sees conniving spies and Washington bureaucrats hatching covert schemes to bring down America. Orwellian podcasts muse on the end of days and "Why Big Brother is smiling." And Steven Seagal, the martial arts actor and Russian apologist, has written his own deep state novel, with a forward by Trump's favorite sheriff, Joe Arpaio.

    The deep state is a potent, if shadowy, narrative in our bitter cultural wars. It is likened to a dark force, unknowable and unseen, manipulating our national fate. It

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