I've seen discussions on here about Biden winning this year because he works in the ruling class's interest.
If the CIA really did just push a button at Langley and decide the next president, why not Hilary?
She's a corporate ghoul like the rest of them, loves war, everyone expected her to win, and the election was close enough to be plausible either way. She would have been a more reliable, or at least knowable, asset to the deep state than Trump.
She would have been the same mid president as Trump, but it would have been more of a banality of evil approach. Everyone's material conditions would have gotten worse in the same way but there wouldn't have been the media circus around everything she did.
So why do you think the 'most qualified' person for the job didn't win last time? And what could that say about this year?
They did not have a real idea of how bad he would be for US hegemony until after his first term. There was a lot of "4d chess" and other shit rhetoric that made people believe (including those that work in intelligence) that he might not actually believe everything he actually says.
They can put a thumb on the scales, not completely tip it. They are going to be placing a larger thumb on the scales this time.