In Reply to: Jimmy Carter was viewed as a failed president posted by UCLA73 on November 10, 2026 at 16:02:45
He was at some point considered too extreme. But he beat George HW Bush. This reflected the country's shift to the right following the New Deal and the passage of civil rights in the 60s. Yeah, he was charming and charismatic, but the underlying forces such as the southern strategy, suppyside economics, and Roe were very much in motion. Reagan's rise wasn't a fluke.