That's exactly how I remember it. For all his happy talk, things didn't go well for us. I basically stopped following him at that point.
I stopped listening to LS when he said that Mueller was a white hat.
Gee, there sure are lots of Pearl Clutching Concern Troll Debbie Downer Eeyores on this thread (just kidding).
Some people who whip the numbers until they bleed like to manufacture an aura of cold, hard, scientific, unemotional, factual analysis around their opinions.
But politics is highly emotional by nature, and what shows up in the original post is way more emotional than any of the other adjectives from the first sentence of this paragraph.