Eh, no offense, but this is a tired talking point. It’s always this polarized dichotomy. You’re either a major player in international politics, or you’re an isolationist.

Let’s just put aside for the moment that the entirety of US international involvement since the end of WWII has been one disaster after another, since this is an opinion that may not be shared, and is not the point here anyway. The US has been the tip of the spear for the EU, NATO, etc for decades, and is a primary reason for the country going absolutely bankrupt. We have been taken advantage of by all of our allies, not only as the policemen of the world, but as the primary investor, bankrolling international interests at the expense of national interests. We are hollowed out, divided, and broken.

We are on a precipice, and are here because we have overextended ourselves in trying to be an empire, which we never should have done in the first place. It is the reason the Founding Fathers warned against foreign alliances. And the wisdom of those men is clearly evident in the state of our country today, having not followed that advise.

Now, is Trump addressing this problem in the best way possible? Maybe not. Probably not. But is he the only one who’s held the office of President since before WWII that is addressing this problem? Sadly, yes.

The deep state is nothing more than the unelected bureaucracy that surrounds government, and all governments have them. And it is deep in that it contains positions that far outstrip the term limits of elected officials.

The inevitable risk of a deep state is in its unelected structure, persistence intergovernmentally, and propensity to function unchecked. Between that and the necessary power it wields, it is ripe for infiltration of bad actors.

As to who those bad actors are depends on the conspiracy theorist you ask, and can range from corrupted business interests to ancient primeval forces. I would propose it as a conglomeration of various mafia groups enacting out their interests: allowing avenues for black markets such as drug and human trafficking, as well as enacting political agendas. Whether they work in concert or have their own secret fights, I don’t know. But I do know that there is more than enough preponderance of evidence to say that something like this is going on, and probably in every government around the world.