As I've noted previously if you really wanna know who runs the US you should be reading books on intelligence agencies. QAnon is essentially correct on this point. Pretty much explicit here
(OccidentalEnclave)The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/volume-60-no-3/the-devils-chessboard-allen-dulles-the-cia-and-the-rise-of-americas-secret-government/It's right in the open really. To the point where the CIA site itself links to PDFs of reviews of books telling you who secretly runs things, even if the CIA author is partially contrary.
https://www.cia.gov/https://z-library.sk/book/11833424/39d86c/the-devils-chessboard-allen-dulles-the-cia-and-the-rise-of-americas-secret-Another long but should read book in this vein:
https://z-library.sk/book/1676358/d483bb/ghost-wars.htmlThis one even won a Pulitzer. You don't even need to read fringe stuff to know what's what.
It's at this point I should note that my father was a US intelligence agent. He didn't tell me much of what he did, and it was classified anyway, but what he did tell me jives with all of this and what I've since learned about him and intelligence agencies from other sources...