Its really sad, that so few have researched history, they've just plodded along buying into any propaganda pushed and fed to them. Deep State is simply a phrase, but what is real and true is "the agenda of Plutocratic Autocracy over the Masses"... The example in history of Plutocracy in America was initially by the British, who had a Plutocratic Monarchy Agenda with an Authoritarian Premise of Imperialist Colonization. When Slavery was introduced, the landscape became convoluted with competing forms, one became what was known as The Confederate States, where the Wealthy Plantation as Industry Owner, Controlled The Environment, with both slave and indentured, and a cast system of poor whites whom were paid no more than the cost of house and feed a slave, they were disposable and replaceable. where as the slave was considered as property, that had been bought and paid for, which had a different valuation than poor whites, because the Plantation Owners had resources invested in acquiring the slaves. He had no investment in poor whites, other than to utilize them to promote divisiveness which became highly pronounced after the Civil War. The Former Slave and the Poor Whites were promoted as adversaries for the labor, and used as a means to divide the masses into adversarial framework, which was known as 'Segregation"... The system designed to keep wages low, while ensuring that black remained poor, and poor whites remain contained in a level of poverty, relieved only by the access of credit debt. This meant The wealthy retain the position of Control.
Politically, it designed the means to prohibit backs from voting, and conversely it constructed means to gerrymander poor whites into a voting support block that voted as the wealthy mandated and dictated.
The only people who have not figured it out is the Right Wing poor and working poor whites within that group. They have been led by the delusion that if they work hard, that one day the wealthy will accept them and maybe see them as equals. That was never to be!! Labels were created, from "poor whites", to "new money" if they gained it" and that grouping was further divided, by the educated and skilled, and the unskilled and uneducated better known as "the service class".
Indoctrination were promoted in every format, from how school books were constructed and what they were constructed to promote. There were ethnicty conflicts among whites, where once European Group did not like another European Group, but they only come together to stand against black people, aside from that, they built communities of segregated white ethnicity groups and they knew not to cross those lines, the same as the poor whites of any group knew not to cross the line into the environments of the wealthy.
None of this was the principles of the origins in the world that shaped The Declaration of Independence, nor was it the Democracy The Declaration Declared. It was a Cast System, controlled by Plutocracy, where the Plutocrats considered themselves the Faux Version of Monarchy.
People are rarely able to stand back and see the big picture - in situation of today, we see "Drama Feeds", that feed the people as being "Drama Junkies' and they can't kick the habit to learn the truth. The only detox is "Education"
