It's really easy to put out numbers when they are made up on how you currently feel. Of course they are wrong, he doesn't care and neither do his followers.

There is the idea of the Conservative Ratchet. I do recommend looking it up. I believe it is even discussed in the 2nd thought video that this image is from. I'm not intelligent enough to describe it in text when there are people far better then me who have already done a far better job explaining it. But I do recommend it as a source of study.