Indeed it's not clear America has ever had much of a middle class. As PG says, 20th Century America had a large working class population who enjoyed middle inco

Indeed it's not clear America has ever had much of a middle class. As PG says, 20th Century America had a large working class population who enjoyed middle incomes, fuelled by America's huge industrial expansion. That expansion is now over. In my opinion, what's happened has been quite toxic. People have been given the illusion of social progress whilst true opportunity has been concentrated in a very small population. Those that want their country back have missed the point: it was never theirs in the first place.