[Mark17]

Now, I suspect that one hundred percent of the time is spent looking for political advantage and all economic or regulatory work is done by staffers and aimed not at improving something, but at undermining or destroying some objective of the opposition.

Wouldn’t we classify some of them, as the deep state?

[Gen.Blather]

“Wouldn’t we classify some of them, as the deep state? “

I think the deep state consists of people who are not elected civil servants who spend their entire career in some government position. They become “The Deep State” when they use their job to bias the success of one political side or the other. This is clearly the case of Obama’s DOJ/FBI, and probably a host of other government organizations like the IRS and CIA as well.