“Deep State” is the name for a shadow government. Bill Clinton admitted late in his Presidency that “there is a government within the government, and I don’t run it.”
This shadow government can be made up of people at the highest levels of the CFR, CIA, Trilateral Commission and career officers of various branches and organizations within government. This is why no matter who is elected President, nothing changes. All major decisions go through them.
Col L Fletcher Prouty was the liason for the joint chiefs of staff and the CIA. He had an office in the pentagon and worked for a decade in that position and retired a couple months after JFK was assassinated knowing the government had been taken over and changed for the worse.
He wrote a book called “The Secret Team”.
He said that the CIA would place a person in every branch of government in every office. They would go to the head, who was a political appointee knowing these people were bureaucrats that changed positions every year or two. They would say that they needed someone in this position that could arrange assets for the CIA w/out going through regular channels, but before they did anything they would ask permission from this person. If they needed to assign a submarine to pick up an operative from Croatia, they could arrange it quickly, in a few hours. Once this person left their position because they were reassigned or new administration, this person would be cutoff from the regular chain of command and free to operate without anyone knowing what he was doing or what he did.
That was in 1962, by now there are hundreds of these people within government operating freely for the CIA with out anyone knowing who they are or what they really do.
The problem is no one knows who actually calls the shots. Even Clinton didn’t know. It’ll be hard to drain the swamp when you don’t know where the plug is located.