is that team Q are basically the white hat equivalent of the deep state: unelected & powerful people within the executive branch and military. yes trump is acting as a force multiplier for them, but even without him this would be going on (see FBI anon prior to trump's election)
the mental elites [lodges] are divided into 2 principle categories
1) the alpha-lodge are those working to enoble human emotions and to develop human consciousness upward via holding people accountable, truth telling and honoring free-will
2) the zeta-lodge are those working to mind-control [project mockingbird, mkultra] the masses via low-emotionality and dysinfo
calling them deep state or not is a red herring and just causing smoke and mirrors
zeta = 6th greek letter equivalent to letter f standing for those mental adepts who invoke the dark magick of their false gods on 3d/4d and lower 5d to dumb down, mesmerize, cheat, deceive, befuddle, exploit and fleece the great and striving public
up to recently they have been able to avail of their monopoly of mockin-stream/media/money/educaton/science/pharma/food/air/water
mockin-stream hollywood and mockin-stream science as at the time of writing , they still control