Following Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump frequently railed about the “rigged” system during the campaign. After his election, however, he filled his administration with billionaires–some of them from Wall Street. Even factoring in a healthy splash of opportunism, then, it is fair to ask whether Trump and Sanders, while using the same term, were actually talking about the same thing.
They weren’t. While Bernie’s program wasn’t actually socialist, he does see the world in fairly Marxist terms; to him, as a result, the enemy is the big capitalist, and the Wall Street banker in particular. The “rigged” system simply gives that kind of person too much power. To Trump and his followers, however, the enemy isn’t Wall Street as much as it is the left-wing cultural/political/intellectual establishment that patronizes and misrules red America. In their eyes, the system is still “rigged” against them even with Trump as president, and the battle continues to this day.