unelected bureaucrats and senior public servants run governments at all levels, local, state, federal, the elected officials are only there for the appearance of democracy, elected officials get into office and influence what they can working with these people, but they are not running anything the real power and decisions are made in the shadows. Trump doest subscribe to this and that's why they are doing anything and everything in an attempt to stop him getting elected. The deep swamp is real stretches all the way from Washington to Brussels to Davos, they answer only to the Chardonnay socialist global elites. We are but plebs to them.