Thursday 28 October 2021

Where Did Jimmy Carter Fail?

 In recent months, the topic of Jimmy Carter has come up more often, with varying explanations of how he screwed up, or how he fell into a 'pit'.

I would offer three observations:

1.  Jimmy Carter was supposed to be the cleaned-up and 'pure' President after Richard Nixon.  In simple terms....that role was marginalized and the 'act' that you got was the anti-Nixon.  It was a brand name or sales gimmick that just never took off.

2.  Carter was in some ways, the activist President.  He was bringing new positions, new roles, and a new path ahead for the nation.  As an activist.....he just never took off.  

3.  Finally, the nation's problems (mid-1970s to late-1970s).....were more than he or his team could really comprehend.  They seemed to always be a page or two behind the times....never getting the public trust, and replacing a failed policy with a new-so-to-be-new-failed policy.

Trying to compare Carter to Biden?  You might be able to take five or six points....but there are dozens of differences.  I would suggest that the Biden crew is 'sitting' in some airport-reality, and waiting for their plane (yet to arrive).  They keep talking about the future and injecting woke topics into their daily chatter.....but it gets less and less traction. 

All of this.....in just nine months?  Yeah, that's the worrying part of this discussion.  Carter had four years to reach this point.....Biden is already there and we aren't even at the 12th month.  

1 comment:

LargeMarge said...

Andrew Young -- notorious for his community-activist 'citizenship-schools' (aka 'BOLCHEVICS') -- gave the Afrika continent to the chinese... in the process, murdered many hundreds of thousands of Northern European Heritage folk, instantly devolving the bread-basket of the planet into a ThirdWorld cesspool.
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As a reward for his success, carter appointed young as an ambassador.
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A special level of eternal flames awaits those cowards.