Does the Deep State/Establishment/Powers-thar-Are Exist? Does it--whatever it may be--recognize its own Existence?

One knows that it was the entity which raised Hillary Clinton to eminence, from whom she derived her limitless campaign funds, and which, if any existent entity did, suffered Angst and Nightmares and Bitterly Humiliating Defeat in her Loss to the absurd, unmeaning  buffoon and (likely) Alzheimer's victim Donald Trump.  Now again, in the French presidential elections--in the hysterical attempts to denigrate Marine Le Pen, and in the fatuous attempt to make presidential material of the characterless, insipid, virtually amorphous Emmanuel Macron, that the Deep State seems ready almost to materialize.  Gone are the days when, in a Nixon and his evil strategist Kissinger, the utter corruption and villainous wickedness of Supreme Power had human and open (if butt-ugly) faces.