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how is this how i find out?? fml
same, but I don’t use mainstream news, so it makes sense. also, damn now I’m sad
Carter was the first neoliberal president. You can disagree with that statement but it just means you don't know what the term means.
As the best of the bunch, the only one who actually seemed to believe you need to do good things in private to balance out your destruction of the social safety net and that the corruption wasn't the point in itself, it might be a little sad that he saw its inevitable conclusion when he was too old and sick to change his mind and do something about it but it's still a fitting legacy.
Yup. He was a spoiler personable economic right wing candidate who won despite the party not favoring him. They feared he would be weak in the general, but couldn't stop him from winning the primary. He clashed heavily with the establishment who were MORE left wing than him. Of course, he was still too nice to satisfy conservatives, so Reagan defeated him in a landslide.