People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

I'm painfully middle class.

Remember, David, the middle class have to be kept under control. They understand that, and police themselves. Not with guns and gulags, but with social codes. The right way to have sex, treat your wife, flirt at tennis parties or start an affair. There are unspoken rules we all have to learn.

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.

Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can’t think of any Asian-American ones.

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.