That is an important correction.  I still disagree profoundly.  If you really want to see a "deep state" in action, look to Russia  (A democracy for about 5 minutes).   The KGB bureaucrats have been colluding to bring the state back from a fragile democracy to an oligarchy, based now on kleptocracy rather than Marxist ideology.  That is not the result of a deep state created by democratic institutions but a deep state created by a dictatorship whose members never went away but kept working to resurrect the power structures they were comfortable with.  Your "deep state" is more a complaint about empire building within a bureaucracy which happens (look up Pournelle's law) but is normal institutional behavior that has to be managed by the politicians.  To paraphrase Trump: It is all far more complicated than he imagined.  Incompetence is not an appealing quality in a leader.