But Trump and his loyalists would replace the deep state with "the dumb state" of bigotry and ignorance, a state that sees scientists as scammers and academics as subversives and truth as mere opinion. There will always be an elite, whether above ground or below, leaning left or right, no matter the revolutionary rhetoric.
This bogus President and his pathetic mob, always ready to blame their personal failures on myriad conspiracies, might be the best thing that ever happened to the deep state -- which looks relatively civilized by comparison.