Three days later, on December 12, an anonymous columnist who used the pen name “Virgil” published the 4,000-word Breitbart polemic that introduced his concept of the American “deep state” to a broad audience of US conservatives. Peter Dale Scott—the author of the 2007 book The Road to 9/11—had defined the “deep state” as the military-industrial complex when he appeared on Alex Jones’s far-right conspiratorial program Infowars. “Virgil” defined the American “deep state” as something far broader, consisting of the “military-industrial complex,” the “establishment” and employees, political
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