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Mon Dec 30, 2024, 03:32 PM Monday

Jeff Tiedrich - in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter

I can’t say if Jimmy Carter was the most fundamentally decent person ever to be president. I’ll leave that judgement to the historians. but Jimmy Carter was without question the most fundamentally decent president of my lifetime.

and there is no doubt that Jimmy absolutely set the standard for how to spend a post-presidency. he didn’t try to make a quick buck. he didn’t hawk autographed bibles. he didn’t slap his name on an endless succession of ever-shoddier trinkets.

he didn’t whine about how unfairly he’d been treated, despite having been ratfucked out of the presidency by Reagan campaign operatives who cut a secret deal with Iran not to release their American hostages until after the election.

Jimmy Carter just quietly went about his business, making the world a better place.

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