What they imply by deep state isn’t real, but their actual complaints is real - policies are enacted by normal, everyday workers, who are tasked with and usually pretty fastidious about following the laws that might not allow for immediate implementation of any crazy idea a regressive might think up and demand happen that day.

That’s the deep state - the workers doing the actual job of administering the government.

These people want to be monarchs and anyone who doesn’t bow to them is the enemy.