The working class in the United States are now the 'ignored class'.   They are expected to pay their taxes and keep quiet while their betters handle the important things that they are too ignorant to understand.

 A Democrat or a Republican State or local candidate will toss in a sound bite every now and then for 'the middle class' but nationally,  ideology controls Sanders and Cruz and money controls Hillary.   No one seems to control Trump.   That may be a large part of his appeal.