[robotcapital]

The article's point isn't that globalization (or policy) didn't play a role, it's that the premise of middle class downfall is false to begin with. See the section under the header "The American middle class was never hollowed out".

[FuriouslyAdrift]

The middle class of the 1980s/1990s are the poor of today... the middle class of today are different people (and probably would have been upper class professionals in the past)

[dullcrisp]

Well we’re all different people, which is why they’re looking at median incomes. Unless the problem is that these are different people?

[FuriouslyAdrift]

Those people who used to be middle class didn't just die off. There still here, a large demographic of the United States, and still very very angry. Our current political situation should make that obvious.