Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

I'm painfully middle class.

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.