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Jimmy Carter was an okay president. Despite his "decrease government spending" stance he was still able to establish the US Department of Education, continued the promotion of peace and aid to impoverished and war-torn regions (a stark reversal of the more aggressive policies of JFK's foreign policy failures, as well as policies of Ford and Nixon). Due to economic insecurity of the time he lost in a landslide to Reagan who went on to cut taxes for the rich, very unfortunate.
Carter was "ok" but the party pushing him almost caused the DNC to split, and was the begining of a move to the right that lasted generations...
You're comparing Carter to everyone who came after and said he's progressive.
While ignoring the Dem before him is widely recognized as the peak of modern liberalism, the thing before neoliberalism...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
I'm not saying Carter was a useless piece of shit, I'm saying he's the one that started walking to the right, and the people after him went past the middle.
A bit disingenuous to say Carter was the outlier and saying Lindon B. Johnson was somehow the baseline.
Are you calling JFK rightwing?
Truman?
Because go back any further and you hit FDR...
Compare Carter to the Dems before him, and he's way more conservative. Compare him to Dems after, and he's more liberal.
He was the tipping point, and not in a good way
JFK was very left wing except for all of the times he bombed people for little to no reason at all.
Thats why I called it his foreign policy failures. He had a couple of successes, too, but Jimmy Carter had a much better track record with peace and making allies.