But is it actually a thing?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams thinks so:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams admitted during a podcast on Wednesday that he believes the “deep state” is real. 

“I don’t want to sound [like a] conspiracy theor[ist], but there’s a permanent government,” Adams told Andrew Schulz on his “Flagrant” podcast. “There are people that see presidents and mayors come and go. Their attitude is, ‘We’ll wait you out.'” 

Adams, who said on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party to run as an independent in his reelection campaign, praised FBI director Kash Patel’s 2023 book, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”

As we reported, Adams was hit with federal corruption charges not long after criticizing the Biden administration for its disastrous border policies, which enabled millions of illegal aliens to pour into the country. Coincidence? I think not.

Now he’s ditched the Democrat party: