A century and a half ago, a cabal of elite British intellectuals arrogantly decided that the public was too ignorant to govern itself. They set out to strangle democracy—not through revolution, but by creating a patient, smiling bureaucracy of so-called “experts.” They called themselves the Fabian Society, adopted the wolf in sheep’s clothing as their emblem, and embarked on a mission to capture every institution that influences a free society. Their strategy worked so well that most Americans remain blissfully unaware that they are living under its sinister American incarnation: the Deep State.