The Blob (political term)

For the 1958 film see The Blob (Movie)

The Blob is a name given to the American foreign policy establishment. The term's origins are accredited to former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes. Mike Benz describes it as such:

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it's not Democrats versus Republicans, it's nothing right versus left or liberals versus conservatives. It is the blob. And what I mean by that is the foreign policy establishment of the US, the UK and NATO. This was a term that was coined by 'President Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, when the Obama administration in its final years was frustrated with this entrenched, immutable, alien like, all powerful form within Washington that appeared to be more powerful than the White House itself. So this term, the blob, again came from the Obama White House to describe forces that the White House felt it couldn't take on. And I find it to be a more useful term than something like deep state, because it really encompasses this whole society concept of that. What the government does, stretches its tentacles into the private sector and into civil society and into media organizations. So the blob really has its sort of central locus within the diplomacy, defense and intelligence worlds. So it's the State Department, it's the Pentagon, it's the CIA and the IC, and then sort of spandrels out from there into all of the different political actors on both sides of the aisle, into all the different universities and NGO's and allied media institutions. And it's transatlantic, it's the sort of conjoined foreign policy of the US, the UK and NATO. And we have empowered this blob apparatus to be able to do dirty tricks on the world stage to protect national interests.

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See also

• Uniparty
• Deep State