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I really don't like the phrase "deep state." To me it's cringey (it sounds like something the 'deep state' themselves came up with to discredit the idea)and just gives the naysayers ammunition to use against those of us who talk about these things.
I always say "powers that shouldn't be"... PTSB for short.
It doesn't matter whether we, in the public like, the term. It has been around for some time now.

CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower
The Central Intelligence Agency offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges. like one poster says: "When everything the US people believe, is a lie, we will have...

It existed in academia, long before Trump and the media latched onto it, and made it something in popular culture. Deep Politics, Deep Events, as a way to explain and describe underlying machinations of interlocking interest group politics and clandestine agencies acting, seemingly against the public interest or against the law, exists, and has existed for many, many years now.
This is from TWO YEARS before Trump was even elected, a year before he declared.
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State
February 21, 2014by Mike Lofgren
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State | BillMoyers.com
In a must-read essay, former GOP congressional analyst Mike Lofgren analyzes America's "Deep State," in which elected and unelected figures collude to serve powerful vested interests.
. . . and there is Bill Moyers in a photo with our friends, Anthony Fauci & Georgi boy. . . . among a few other notables.

So, yeah, it's no big deal. It's just a technical term, like talking about infrastructure or trade, or inflation. Don't hide or shy away from a using a word to describe the reality we are living in. If we allow only the educated elites to use it. . . then yeah, we are the rubes they call us.

