If that fact was recently publicized to the point that you could reasonably say it applied to 150 million people then you might have a point

Why? He’s not wrong. The description may not fit you or I but it fits enough people that it applies to the general direction of our country. Seems accurate enough to me.

Given what we’ve witnessed recently this seems like a lot of misplaced faith in the ability of American voters to make rational decisions.

I’m not German but I feel like that word implies that the observer is uneffected by the situation they are observing. This is going to impact everyone which I imagine will significantly decrease the amount of satisfaction one could get from watching these people learn hard lessons.