STRANGE TURN IN AMERICAN POLITICS

That there is a strange revolution going on in the Republican Party has been observed for some time.*  The split is what I will call  Republicans (i.e. conventional or "establishment"  Republicans) and another faction that I will call the Royalists.  With the Royalists, the President becomes more of a monarch of the old school who is not to be opposed.  The two parties agree on a number of things, of course on tax cuts.

The Royalists in the House of Representatives seems to be led by Devin Nunes.  I’m not sure how many members are in the group but it is quite a few and maybe growing  They are less strong in the Senate with the only member I know of as Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin   The main belief seems to be that there is a “Deep State” of people in the government, such as in the FBI, out to get the Monarch, Donald Trump.*  The royalists seem to out to destroy the fabric of the government.

Thus we have seen the Monarch fire the Republican head of the FBI, Republican James Comey, and threaten to fire the Republican Special Investigator Robert Mueller as well as the Republican Deputy Director of the Justice Department whom he appointed in the first place.  There have been attacks on others in the superstructure of the FBI, particularly the six members Comey told about his dinner with the Monarch.  One of those that seemed to have been disposed of has come back to the FBI in a new position:
   Dana Boente, the acting head of the Justice Department's national security division and the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has been picked to become the new FBI general counsel, according to a source familiar with the move.**

   Boente was first thrust into the spotlight in January 2017 as the acting attorney general after President Donald Trump fired Sally Yates for her refusal to defend the first travel ban. He later moved to the No. 2 spot at the Justice Department as acting deputy attorney general, tasked with overseeing the Russia probe after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself and then delivering the news to a slew of US attorneys left over from the Obama administration that they had been fired.**

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has also been under attack by the Royalists.  The Tea Party Loyalists have even taken out a terrible TV advertisement against Rod J. Rosenstein.

Curiously, all these Republicans are being defended by Democrats, even though Comey is credited with a large part in getting the Monarch elected.  This means that Democrats are defending the FBI, a strange turn in events as it is usual Republicans that favor the FBI, CIA, and the military.

Most FBI agents are conservative and come from military backgrounds: 
The typical Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent is white, male, and middle-aged, often with a military background — in short, drawn from the segment of the U.S. population most likely to support GOP nominee Donald Trump.***

What Is The Deep State
Deep state was defined in 2014 by Mike Lofgren, a former Republican U.S. congressional aide, as "a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process." It has become a key concept of the "alt right" movement as expressed by Steve Bannon and Sean Hannity. [6][7]

In The Concealment of the State, professor Jason Royce Lindsey argues that even without a conspiratorial agenda, the term deep state is useful for understanding aspects of the national security establishment in developed countries, with emphasis on the United States. Lindsey writes that the deep state draws power from the national security and intelligence communities, a realm where secrecy is a source of power.[8] Alfred W. McCoy states that the increase in the power of the U.S. intelligence community since the September 11 attacks "has built a fourth branch of the U.S. government" that is "in many ways autonomous from the executive, and increasingly so."[9]

In the political journal Foreign Affairs, Jon D. Michaels discusses Trump and the deep state, and argues that the concept's relevance is quite limited in the United States. He is of the opinion that it is a more useful perspective in the study of developing countries such as Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey, "where shadowy elites in the military and government ministries have been known to countermand or simply defy democratic directives," but that "it has little relevance to the United States, where governmental power structures are almost entirely transparent, egalitarian, and rule-bound."[10]

Recent popular usage of the term has led to its appropriation by Breitbart News and other conservative and right-wing news outlets, where supporters of the Trump Administration have used it to support a variety of conspiracy theories.[11] It has been dismissed by authors for The New York Times[5] and The Observer.[12] University of Miami Professor Joseph Uscinski says, "The concept has always been very popular among conspiracy theorists, whether they call it a deep state or something else." [13]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States)

* You will hear that a revolution is going on in the Democratic Party also, but that is always the case.   Humorist Will Rogers said, "I'm not a member of any organized political party.... I'm a Democrat."   He also said, "Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans."
(https://www.willrogerstoday.com/will_rogers_quotes/quotes.cfm?qID=4)
** https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/dana-boente-fbi/index.html
*** https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/fbi-donald-trump-base-230755