For years I’ve been documenting the destruction of the American middle class at the hands of the GOP and neoliberal politicians (including some corporate Democrats). And that’s where things get confusing, with statistics flying fast and furious (although everybody agrees Reaganomics has whacked working people), raising the question: What actually constitutes the middle class? Pew, for example, uses the definition of middle class as people falling in the middle of the bell-curve of income distribution. … For three decades after World War II, America created the largest middle class the world had ever seen.” And the Fed points out that just defining the middle class by a family’s position within the income distribution curve can be confusing and even deceptive.