Robert Reich: What Really Happened To The American Dream? (Why American Capitalism Is So Rotten, Part II) – OpEd

Today I want to address the disappearance of what was once called the “American dream.” Its disappearance provides an important clue about why Trumpism continues to attract so many.

During the 1950s and 1960s, my father, Ed Reich, owned a shop on the main street from which he sold women’s clothing to the wives of factory...