Donald Trump's future: Why eight years of rule is quite possible
Image: Supporters of Donald Trump in the Mid West town of Elkhart, Indiana
...you can't sit in Elitesville, USA and gauge where Mr Trump is as midterm elections loom. You need to go to Trumpsville. You need to go to the Mid West to understand why the president won, why he still has strong support and why he has every chance of winning again.
It is a region of small towns and rural attitudes where communities have suffered the devastating effects of de-industrialisation.
They are communities where factories have closed and jobs have been shipped overseas.
And they are populated by voters who were particularly receptive to the Trump message focused on jobs, immigration and unfair trade agreements - a message delivered with an accompanying broadside against the political classes and the establishment.