SALENA ZITO: THIS IS THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD TO CRACK LIKE THE RUST BELT.

As Zito accurately writes, first class in an Amtrak Acela Express on the Northeast Corridor is “a jarring anthropological experience — that is, if you bother to look up from your digital device. Not because it is too fast, or the curves are too sharp; the jarring effect comes from the visual decay of our country swooshing right before your eyes.”

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): In the comments: “President Trump may not be able to fix the carnage. But he was elected because he is the only politician in America willing to admit the carnage is happening.”