Thomas Friedman is right; the heroes of the Ukraine investigation are the civil servants who had the guts to risk their jobs and tell the truth, not the Democrats. Trump, of course, thinks these people are part of the “deep state.” Is he right?
Of course not. The witnesses against him are complying with the law and ordinary ethical principles attached to liberal democratic government. A “deep state” operates lawlessly in the dark purely at the whim of authoritarian politicians in power. It is the antithesis of the bureaucratic opposition to Trump.