The 1980 election was all about an un-gifted actor, a reactionary who hated hippies, who cooked the election by manipulating hostage release. If not for consevative lies and dishonesty, Carter would have won a second term. What a different world we’d be in had Jimmy won! Reagan’s advocates insisted Carter was irrelevant in a world fueled by greed and corruption. In truth, his relevance is the greater for it.
The 1980 election was all about an un-gifted actor, a reactionary who hated hippies, who cooked the election by manipulating hostage release. If not for consevative lies and dishonesty, Carter would have won a second term. What a different world we’d be in had Jimmy won! Reagan’s advocates insisted Carter was irrelevant in a world fueled by greed and corruption. In truth, his relevance is the greater for it.