The following is an excerpt from “Healing Middle-Class Democracy: Respecting Each Other, Negotiating Honestly, and ...

Politics, at its most meaningful, is a moral and ideological engagement between power and the people. Yet today, it risks being hollowed out into a spectacle driven by branding.

“Americans want policies that give every American a chance to make it to the middle class.” ¶ Middletown ¶ “A leader who understands the middle class because she grew up in the middle class.” ¶ ...