Opinion of Jimmy Carter

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I have 99% percent of my body in neutral territory and 1 toe in FF land.

Inflation began to spiral out of control on day 1 of his presidency, but on balance he's a decent salt of the earth person with a respectable agenda. Genuine civil rights leader, unlike LBJ. Anti-death-penalty. Triple deregulation, particularly beer brewing deregulation. Energy hawk, and he led by example when it came to conservation.

If it weren't for inflation, and his status in the modern day as a sort of senile relic of the Keynesian era, I'd be more solidly in the FF category.

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Are you living in some kind of opposite universe? He was a miserable failure. Besides Shrub, he's the worst president of the last 70 years.

The outcome of his presidency was awful, but his policies are not easily connected with the economic tribulation that ensued during stagflation. Same can be said of W Bush.

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Inflation started becoming a problem in the final years of Nixon's presidency. You've never heard of the "Whip Inflation Now" buttons Gerald Ford used to pass out?

They did whip inflation. It was under 5% at the end of 1976. It jumped above 5% in January 1977, and it cleared 14% by early 1980. To be fair, there was an oil crisis, but inflation was still out of control.

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it's because of carter that the inflation wasn't around to hurt reagan and he basically sacrificed his second term for it

Everyone knows Carter began the long process of fixing stagflation. Everyone knows he was about 2 years late to make the necessary policy changes.

He didn't sacrifice his second term. He lost it by acting to timidly and slowly in '78 and '79