I agree Banks. I think by “Deep State”, republicans are actually saying that in the face of certain officials they are entirely out of their depth. I don’t think it’s fair to paint Will Hurd with that term which is why you never hear him use it. The rest of the republicans on the committee are definitely part of the Derp state, which is how republicans define “intelligence”.
The result of the trial in the Senate is unlikely to be a removal of the disgusting creature infecting the body politic from the Oval Office while stealing as many tax dollars as he can snatch with his tiny grubby hands.
The trial in the Senate will result in an impeachment of republican Senators tasked with defending this creature, especially those up for re-election, in the eyes of their voters. Just as most GOP House Intelligence Committee members, including pinch hitter Gym Jordan, are now starting to say farewell to their offices, as GOP Judiciary Committee members will soon start to do, the Senators on the wrong side of the isle will feel enormous pressure to join the Bonsai charge of Nunes’ folly, backing dumb-dumb trump right back off their own electoral cliffs.