In the posthumous glow of President Carter, the legacy he left for the Democratic Party—a presidency often mocked as a symbol of ineffectiveness and weakness—seems to have been overlooked. While the Camp David Accords were celebrated, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, along with his cardigan-clad plea for energy conservation, stand as stark examples of political self-inflicted wounds, casting a shadow over the party’s history.
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