You can forget about all that recession pessimism, American's incomes are bulging and this Thanksgiving weekend we saw first-hand what prosperity looks like. In just two days – Thanksgiving and Black Friday – Americans shopped until they dropped, or at least clicked online until they dropped, spending $11.6 billion a leap of 18 percent over last year’s shopping spree.

The other revelation from the bulky spending behavior is that the middle class isn’t disappearing, it is getting richer. Median family incomes just hit $66,000 according to Sentier Research, an all-time high and up some $5,250 in real terms since Trump took office.

Lower-income Americans have also seen a bump up in their incomes, and the biggest percentage gains in wages have been going to people in the lowest 20 percent of income. There is no bigger lie in American politics than the claims by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders that only the rich are snatching the gains from the Trump economy.