fictional deep state? lol
like tin whiskers - it's real.
Where do they hold meetings? DQ? It's real in the sense I defined. An entrenched and mundane byzantine bureaucracy. That's the same in a Fur Hat type Russia, the US federal Gubmint, or the DMV. Career shoe clerks trying to trade a rat hat into a cat hat don't leave in election cycles.
It's the ominous conspiratorial bullshit these fearful losers take from TV that is the falsity of it. Can't beat city hall. I buy that. It that is DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP STATE then I have no problem with the concept.