'The continued denunciation of the 'rigged election' in 2020 has proved to be a masterstroke, a mobilizing myth of Trumpism'

OP-ED. An analysis by the political scientists Raymond La Raja and François Vergniolle de Chantal shows that Donald Trump shamelessly exploits his demographic base by fueling the fears of religious fundamentalists, racists and isolationists united in a wide populist synthesis that has swept away the old Republican establishment.