The government and media have fucked their credibility so hard that it will take them at LEAST another decade for them to claw it back even to where it was in 2015, never mind where it went to after Trump's election.
That's the thing about the deep state: it's a permanent unelected bureaucracy. Anyone who loses faith in these institutions now has no reason to regain that faith until every agent, official, and employee is removed via termination or, well, termination.
In the hypothetical situation where the "Deep State" bureaucracy can be removed, what do you replace it with, and how do you ensure that it doesn't simply devolve into another "Deep State" bureaucracy a few generations down the road?
You can have a powerful dictatorship that is dedicated to fighting them on all fronts, or decentralize government and remove the levers of power they use to take control in the first place.
That's the thing about the deep state: it's a permanent unelected bureaucracy. Anyone who loses faith in these institutions now has no reason to regain that faith until every agent, official, and employee is removed via termination or, well, termination.
In the hypothetical situation where the "Deep State" bureaucracy can be removed, what do you replace it with, and how do you ensure that it doesn't simply devolve into another "Deep State" bureaucracy a few generations down the road?
You can have a powerful dictatorship that is dedicated to fighting them on all fronts, or decentralize government and remove the levers of power they use to take control in the first place.