He's holding his chin pretty high when facing the camera, it's borderline.

As for the destruction, in addition to what he said, we turned our national back against the Lord way back in the 50s when we let the Supreme Court remove God from the public sphere, we grew more ever godless by the decade, and we've killed way more of our own babies than the Phillistines ever did, so the argument can definitely be made that we deserve destruction. You could even argue that we're currently going through an Old Testament style destruction, being that we're currently ruled by foreign enemies.