The rise of the American deep state

The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of formation of the deep state in the United States. “Deep state” was the only possible managerial know-how of Britain– the English aristocracy, that after the church reform of Henry VIII lost the institutional capability to influence the decisions the government made, created its own shadow networks of state managers, thus determining how these decisions will be executed. So, predictably, the “deep state” technology became the basic tool for managing North American colonies. In this context, the American Independence War was nothing else but a new edition of the Cromwellian revolution, i.e. the revolt of the “management network” against the aristocratic superstructure. This largely explains the specifics of the construction of the system of “checks and balances” by the American founding fathers. For instance, their adoption of the Roman Republic as a model was largely dictated by the fact that in the Roman case the aristocracy was created “from scratch”. In many ways, the Roman institutional structure was also reproduced, with the difference that the imperative of military expansion in the American case was replaced by the imperative of an economic one. As in Rome, the Senate became the main owner of power in the United States, the consul’s figure that turned into the president was assigned the same role of a “hired political manager”, and the pragmatics of the institutional system was conceived as excluding the possibility of challenging the central position of the Senate both from the executive branch and from society. Thus, Madison considered the main advantage of the American system to be “the complete exclusion of the people, who are represented by the national assembly, from participating in governing in America.” Puritanism became the ideological basis of the American system, assuming individual enrichment as the main reason for the existence of the political system, and financial technologies became the basic managerial tool. This structure remained “dormant” until the Civil War between the North and the South, and began to unfold after the victory of the North. The authors consider the stages of the expansion of the American deep state, during which it consistently privatized property, public policy, the media sphere, the sphere of education, and during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson went beyond America. Considering the features of the American deep state in comparison with the British one, the authors came to the conclusion that in the American case there is no deterrent factor of conservatism to protect the political system from shocks.