A couple of comments:

• He notes that While the median income of American families was stagnant, the national debt doubled, but I don't think he ever mentions the obscene accrual of wealth to the top sliver of the population: this is my one big gripe about this particular piece.
  
• He does not play the xenophobe/America First card; on the contrary, he puts the blame squarely on the U.S.: Who did this to us? We did it to ourselves.
  
• This is particularly significant in that he points out three times how the U.S.'s position has weakened significantly vis-a-vis China, but there is no whiff of China as ruthless exploiter or crypto-imperialist in his language.  Again, he is unambiguous about whose fault this is.
  
• Moreover, he fingers George W. Bush and "his" Republicans" as the direct culprits.
  
• He even implicitly laments the deterioration of relations with "Europe and the Arab world".
  
• And he does not even criticize Obama, except obliquely by reference to Drafting another entitlement program as we are informed that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds have unfunded liabilities in the trillions.