The deep state has nothing to do with America either. We have time to wipe out both. But actually, a political leftist can be legitimate while the deep state never can. The deep state operates outside the constitution and does not feel constrained by it.
We did not have it to any appreciable extent before WWII. It has now developed into a secret government.
I disagree. Information of which I have learned over the last year has convinced me that our "deep state" was created more or less by the ascendancy of Lincoln. It is no coincidence that the era right after Lincoln is know as the worst period of corruption in the nation's history.
I think the undue influence and corruption between the powerful industrialists and government continued after the gilded age, they just learned to be more circumspect about it.