Jimmy Carter passed away yesterday at age 100, and I have already seen press pieces intended to rehabilitate his image in the public’s mind.
Carter’s record is so abysmal that few, if any, will argue that his presidency was a success–that is farther than even the more ambitious hagiographers can plausibly go–but at least a few are already trying to rehabilitate his image to elevate him to the middle ranks of presidents.
Jonathan Alter: Jimmy Carter “was an inspirational former president, but he was also an outstanding president, if measured a certain historical yardstick…He was a substantive and, in many ways, a visionary success…Everything, except the Iranian hostage crisis, benefited from… pic.twitter.com/MpzT61tAfd
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 29, 2024
I appreciate the impulse to not speak ill of the dead–and I am not going spend a…
