Before Trump the criticism of whatever passed for "deep state" was they protected multi-nationals, and the US had become essentially an oligarchy in which both parties, and the govt careerists, worked to preserve the oligarchy's econ interests. I wasn't totally buying in, but it was pretty clear that aside from Clinton-Obama pressing for education aid and money to support workers, who used to have unions, healthcare …. there wasn't much.
But until the great recession, workers' lives were still improving … on the whole. That's changed and our kids now face having declining econ prospects.
Whatever deep state Trump is bloating about … it has nothing to do with that. Rather, his admin is a mixture of grievances of people who are rich, envy, ego, personal vendettas and economic incompetence.
Way back when I studies Political Science that was just the nature of the Federal Bureaucracy.
it all started when the left went crazy because the right said they didn't want to work with obama. WAH UNFAIR.
i can't think of too many times in the past any losing party in a presidential election ever said "hey, we lost but let's dive right in and help the other guy out even though it will seriously piss off our side!"
never happened. yet after obama, it was huge and must be paid back in spades.
and here we are.
trump is far from a saint. most presidents can only wave at said sainthood from a distance. but all the attack / revenge politics isn't par for the course. it is new ground and having to satisfy our emotional turmoil is tearing the foundation out from under the country.
if that's what the left wants, to work the constitution out of here, good luck with that. if not, then stop all this shit and build a better platform for where to take this country in 2020 and beyond and run on that.