"... when Western countries actually do experience decline, it’s because people have elected a declinist."

What a moronic and feeble-minded world view, and as always so ably presented by the intellectually challenged Mr Saunders.  The problems in Canada are not because of some individual political personalities but due to intrinsically erroneous policies of both the Liberal and Conservative parties have followed over the last decades. These parties actively work to  maintain the status quo and prevent any change in who actually owns and controls Canada. The GLOB and Mr Saunders pretend that voters are succumbing to their own negativity while in fact  it is  the status-quo world which is falling apart, because it is ordinary voters who are seeing through the lies and abuse of the present political system, which the MSM like the GLOB are slaves to.

Mr Trump's election should be seen as an indication that 'you cannot fool all the people all of the time' and not as something negative.