Deepstate = uniparty journalists + unelected bureaucratic officials + elected officials (that they pick and choose whom to lie for)
Somehow, somewhere along the way, journalists now run the country. They run campaigns, they lie for candidates, and they ensure idiotic people vote for those candidates by gas lighting them using an appeal to emotion and identity while lying all the way to the bank!
If somehow their candidates lose, they gas light again and lie about the results claiming it's a coup helped along by Russia or some other foreign power (as they did with Hillary).
And if their candidate wins (because of numerous steps they took along the way and on vote counting day) and the opposing candidate shows proof of himself actually winning with video evidence of mass corruption, they dismiss, diminish his standing using character assassinations and using false claims.
The entire deep state is journalism coupled with unelected bureaucratic officials and offers an illusion of democracy with elected officials that they pick and choose who to lie for, plain and simple.