Destroyed! Destroyed by the eeeeevil Gipper.
Anytime someone claims the middle class has been destroyed or even shrank better give a definition of the middle class at the start and the end of the period along with the percentage of the population in the lower, middle and upper classes. Much of the time the real figures show the middle class has shrunk by the income curve spreading out so some drop below while others climb up to the upper class.
outsourcing to China is what hurt the working class taking away its middle-class status. I won’t say destroy the middle class because it is still here and is mad along with those in the working class that 30 years ago would have been considered middle class... new moto for 2024 presidential election Make working class middle class again.