Well, yeah, but in a similar way, even though right wingers call legitimate news "fake news", fake news is still a term for completely fabricated stories on facebook. Same with deep state, I've heard it used before 2016 to mean "unelected but powerful government workers" essentially
I think Deep State in the modern conspiratorial sense always refers to like, Obama, Clinton, and Comey working with CNN and MSNBC to subvert Trump.
Well, yeah, but in a similar way, even though right wingers call legitimate news "fake news", fake news is still a term for completely fabricated stories on facebook. Same with deep state, I've heard it used before 2016 to mean "unelected but powerful government workers" essentially