Jimmy Carter — one of the most (if not THE most) honorable and decent human beings to ever serve in the presidency, and a great president, one of the mot (if not THE most) underrated, as well. A life well lived; a presidency underrated and unappreciated, a love story unrivaled, a post-presidency unparalleled.
Donald Trump — the absolute worst human being and worst president in U.S. history by any objective measure.
Beyond his Nobel Peace Prize-winning foreign policy in brokering peace between Israel and Egypt (which has remained solid since 1978), his domestic policy successes are greatly underestimated.
The insidious Reagan campaign of 1980 and his famous “misery index” was extremely dishonest and disingenuous. Reagan’s “misery index,” which he pinned on Carter, combined the interest rate indexes and inflation rate indexes. Both of those elements are controlled more directly by the Federal Reserve, not the presidency.
What too many forget is that Jimmy Carter inherited rapidly increasing interest and inflation rates from Nixon and Ford (remember Nixon’s wage and price controls? Ford’s pathetic “Whip Inflation Now — WIN” buttons?), under the Fed Chair Arthur Burns who had been APPOINTED BY NIXON.
Jimmy Carter, IN HIS LAST YEAR AS PRESIDENT, appointed Paul Volcker as Fed Chair, who served until 1987, when he was replaced by self-described Ayn Rand disciple Alan Greenspan (trivia note: also husband of NBC foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell) and just a few months later we had the stock market crash of October 1987.
It was the Fed policies of Paul Volcker, APPOINTED BY JIMMY CARTER, just before he left office, and who served through much of Reagan’s presidency, that took effect through most of the Reagan years and brought down interest and inflation rates that Reagan shamefully took credit for.
Compare and contrast:
Jimmy Carter — one of the most (if not THE most) honorable and decent human beings to ever serve in the presidency, and a great president, one of the mot (if not THE most) underrated, as well. A life well lived; a presidency underrated and unappreciated, a love story unrivaled, a post-presidency unparalleled.
Donald Trump — the absolute worst human being and worst president in U.S. history by any objective measure.
Beyond his Nobel Peace Prize-winning foreign policy in brokering peace between Israel and Egypt (which has remained solid since 1978), his domestic policy successes are greatly underestimated.
The insidious Reagan campaign of 1980 and his famous “misery index” was extremely dishonest and disingenuous. Reagan’s “misery index,” which he pinned on Carter, combined the interest rate indexes and inflation rate indexes. Both of those elements are controlled more directly by the Federal Reserve, not the presidency.
What too many forget is that Jimmy Carter inherited rapidly increasing interest and inflation rates from Nixon and Ford (remember Nixon’s wage and price controls? Ford’s pathetic “Whip Inflation Now — WIN” buttons?), under the Fed Chair Arthur Burns who had been APPOINTED BY NIXON.
Jimmy Carter, IN HIS LAST YEAR AS PRESIDENT, appointed Paul Volcker as Fed Chair, who served until 1987, when he was replaced by self-described Ayn Rand disciple Alan Greenspan (trivia note: also husband of NBC foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell) and just a few months later we had the stock market crash of October 1987.
It was the Fed policies of Paul Volcker, APPOINTED BY JIMMY CARTER, just before he left office, and who served through much of Reagan’s presidency, that took effect through most of the Reagan years and brought down interest and inflation rates that Reagan shamefully took credit for.