“As inequality has gotten worse and worse, the middle class has by many measures shrunk.  That is an open invitation to corruption.  We see more and more big money undermining our democratic institutions.  .  .  .  We were opening ourselves to a demagogue because so many people became so angry and were convinced even before Trump that the system was rigged against them.  .  .  .  The fact of the matter is we ended up with a very large number of Americans who feel that the American system and the promise of America was a sham.”

Robert Reich