The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.