Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

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A good book on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factfulness:_Ten_Reasons_We%27...

Also a relentless diet of negative headlines, twisted by media outlets to make 'their guy' seem not quite so bad by comparison, doesn't help.

>>Perhaps no political promise is more potent or universal than the vow to restore a golden age. From Caesar Augustus to the Medicis and Adolf Hitler, from President Xi Jinping of China and President “Bongbong” Marcos of the Philippines to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Joe Biden’s “America Is Back,” leaders have gained power by vowing a return to the good old days.

>>What these political myths have in common is an understanding that the golden age is definitely not right now.

That was the opening few sentences. Is the author suggesting that moral authority during Adolph Hitler's reign (and others of similar ilk in his list) wasn't really all that bad? If not, what exactly is he saying by using that list in his opening?