The idea of a Deep State pulling the strings of culture and economics is not an unverifiable conspiracy theory; it’s a mathematical socio-political inevitability. The deepest of them will resort to assassination, either real, or just of reputations, to protect their entrenched interests. All I can say is: thank the gods he missed; and the attacks on his reputation were so transparent. For had the ditherer won, we’d be in fucking deep shit.