Measuring wealth by income doesn’t always translate well. When everything you need to live costs five times as much, someone might live very well on 35k in one part of the world and not even be able to afford food, housing and transportation in another on $45k.

He only got reelected because Democrats seemed to care about twenty other things more than the working class. If they can’t figure that out things are only going to get worse. They’ll probably get worse no matter what, the only question is who people will blame. It should be the elite class but they’ll blame poor voters on the other team and nonvoters instead.