To be fair, he's not bringing them up as intellectual support for his argumentative base – he's bringing them up as support for acts of retaliation. This is mostly about power and we've lost 30% in power vs. the US in just ~12 years because we've fucked up our economy.
> we've lost 30% in power vs. the US in just ~12 years because we've fucked up our economy.
I wonder how many Americans would prefer to live in the US that existed 12 years ago versus the US today.
Most of our power loss is from electing a belligerent dumb fuck twice and allowing him to sabotage our international relationships and destroying our remaining credibility.
Maybe 'the economy' is not the only valid yardstick to compare countries by?