In some ways I think Carter gets a bad rap. I’ve long said that the economic malaise of the mid to late 1970s was the inevitable result of the fiscal irresponsibility of the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
“the economic malaise of the mid to late 1970s was the inevitable result of the fiscal irresponsibility of the Johnson and Nixon administrations”
That may be true, but Carter’s eagerness to lean into the malaise was one of the nails in his political coffin.
He deserves the bad rap. Yes, the prior Presidents did a lot of damage but Carter made everything worse.