I’ve heard the Deep State described as a “consensus rather than a conspiracy”. They have a lot of points of agreement, but no one person is really in charge.
As a result, they may take actions just because a bunch of them may feel that they may benefit from it, possibly in different ways.
It is a collective (including Republicans) who defend the establishment government. They have no single leader because they are drawn together from so many disparate groups, all of whom agree that the establishment--the orthodoxy--must be defended at all costs.
They most likely wouldn't agree on a single leader anyway, so what we are left with is a collective that has a kind of hive mind.
The disparate parties that make up this Deep State collective seem to have lost all objectivity and don't see that, as a group, it is defending some very unsavory types...and damaging the country and the cause of freedom.