BERNIE SANDERS IS THE MOST PROMINENT CONSPIRACY THEORIST IN AMERICA, Rich Lowry writes at the Politico:

He runs around the country alleging that the economy is “rigged” — a term borrowed from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren — by what he calls “the billionaire class.”

Sanders doesn’t mean this metaphorically. It’s not a poetic exaggeration. He’s dead serious. As he put it in his speech at Liberty University a couple of months ago, our economy is “designed by the wealthiest people in this country to benefit the wealthiest people in this country at the expense of everybody else.”

Designed. Per Sanders, the wealthy have built and maintained a self-serving system of income inequality at the cost of the 99 percent. As he has put it: “This is a rigged economy — heads they win, tails you lose.”

But when will he start attacking President Goldman Sachs by name, and his would-be successor?

Related: Fellow socialist Bill de Blasio endorses Hillary over Bernie, oddly enough.

(Via Betsy Newmark.)