'Rigged Election' Claims Degrade Democracy. But 'Rigged System' Charges Enhance It.

Both Democrats and Republicans have charged that our economic system is “rigged” to benefit the wealthy, but only the GOP has advanced the destructive and conspiracist claim that the election itself is “rigged.”

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