He says America isn’t in decline. (I would say we have some trouble spots, but overall agree). That won’t set well with most people here. Gloom, doom and despair. You need the worst of times (or create the perception of it) to stoke the base.
America is in a serious moral and spiritual freefall. Hard to negate what John Adams so astutely stated: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”