He actually used a material metric, i.e. electricity generation.

Even if Trump and his team of saboteurs lose power in 2028, everything I see says that by then America will have fallen so far behind that it’s unlikely that we will ever catch up.

I hope he's right. But to be certain I hope the Republicans dig the US's grave deeper and seal it with cement. The US is overdue for voting a corpse as president. Charlie Kirk 2028, so anti woke he's dead.