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And despite the poisonous rhetoric, cities that voted for donald trump, refugees are stimulating the economy, they're running civic government, they're important civic leaders. there are two americas, but in a different way than we usually talk about. there's national politics which is so dispiriting. >> deborah, describe the journey. what exactly did you guys do? >> it wasn't 35,000 feet, it was actually 2,500 feet across the country. we were in our small plane for four to five years, not nonstop, but going from -- >> this is a tiny single prop plane. >> a little propeller plane. >> this is n...

Poisonous rhetoric, cities that voted for trump, citizens and refugees are stipulating the economy, running the civic government. they're important civic leaders. there are two americas, but in a different way than we usually talk about. there's national politics which is so dispiriting. and there's this other america people are not recognizing of getting things done at the local level. >> deborah, describe the journey. what exactly did you guys do? >> it wasn't 35,000 feet, it was actually 2,500 feet across the country. we were in our small plane for four to five years, not nonstop, but going...

For more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my column. let's get started. okay. i want to step away from the fray of minute to minute, second to second news for a moment and talk about the big picture of america. the 30,000-foot view. let's forget about the partisan rancor for a bit and look at what is really going on in the country outside washington, outside the beltway. and i suppose the big question is, is america in decline? is it headed for trouble? is it in a nationwide depression of sorts? or is it vibrant as ever, thriving, growing, innovating? joining me now are james and deborah fallo...

A book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! and we are back with jim and deborah fallows and steve brill, talking about nothing less than the future of america. you heard the fallows perspective, which i characterize as the friedman one from a different column, which is, if you want to be optimistic about this country, stand on your head because everything looks better from the bottom up. but the kind of problems you outline, that the government is deeply partisan, it can't get anything done, we haven't built any serious infras...

At the same time and enough of the power grid goes out at the same time, we will understand that it's an emergency. we have a slow moving emergency with infrastructure that is fast accelerating. and people will get disgusted. >> deborah, let me ask you, when you talk to these people, you know, at the local level, what did they -- what was their feeling about national politics? were they sort of hoping that they could then go on and run it? were they deeply frustrated? >> when we went into the towns that we visited, we never asked people about national politics. we went in asking about, what's ...