Josef Burton
Josef Burton is a former American diplomat. He worked on Iranian and Afghan immigration issues during the Trump presidency from Ankara, Turkey, and Washington, D.C. His last tour with the State Department was in Mumbai, India. He is currently working on a book about the Muslim ban at the intersection of empire, migration, liberalism and Islamophobia.
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The Deep State: the Conspiratorial Turn in America
The concept of the Deep State began as something real and tangible: a parallel network of power behind the politics of Turkey. In America, though, it is the realm of conspiracy, seized upon by Trump, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists and QAnon supporters alike.