• pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s interesting because it was after my time but hindsight kind of showed he was right in principal but wasn’t a great statesman and couldn’t do the political calculations behind the scenes to rally his own party much less unit both sides.

      I vaguely know about Ollie North and how the hostage situation before his second election run sabotaged his campaign but that seems to be more a nail in the coffin rather than the only reason for his failure.

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      6 months ago

      How do you think Jimmy carter failed to address these issues policy wise?