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Maybe depends to which middle class you're comparing yourself to, the Bay Area, or the rest of the US.

How exactly? More taxes? Us middle class tech workers will remain totally comfortable under Sanders, and great improvements can be made to environmental and healthcare policy.

I cringe to think about what might happen to the greatly improved VA healthcare benefits I now enjoy.

As a middle class tech worker I don't see how.

How many major pieces of legislation does a president get through? One or two seems like the median these days. I doubt this is in his top 20 bills.

> How many major pieces of legislation does a president get through?

Without flipping the Senate or replacing McConnell, a Democrat POTUS will get bugger all through unless they can do it through executive orders (AFAIK.)

> unless they can do it through executive orders

Which will be promptly reversed by the next conservative POTUS, thanks to the skill Trump has shown us.

Changes will have to be codified in law to make them stick from now on.