A half-century ago, America had the largest middle class in the history of the nation and of the world. Unlike income or wealth, power is a zero-sum game. They have justified their wealth and power as being in the interest of the public, but the public has been shafted. The propagandists and demagogues behind the oligarchy (Donald Trump included) are pouring salt into some of the nation’s oldest wounds. This will require a multiracial, multiethnic coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class Americans fighting for democracy and fighting against concentrated wealth, power, and privilege.