My column on the politics of our improving economy and the need to prepare for the next recession won’t get the same attention as my posts on Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, but it is the best and most important thing I’ve written all week.*

As the economy gets better (at long last), the salience of economic issues will decline a little bit according to the economic polls. This should not be seen as an opportunity to chase the news cycle. The economic problems of the middle class and of wage-earners below the earnings median did not begin with the Great Recession and won’t entirely disappear during our current period of growth. We are also more than five years into the “recovery” and are likely closer to the next recession than we would like to think.

We need to focus on the need for an economic agenda that deals with the priorities of the middle class and of struggling wage-earners. It is important for today. It will be even more important for when the next recession hits — as it inevitably will.

*Fwiw