Jimmy Carter's Legacy In Reality

Carter's presidency was a turning point.  Mostly for the worst as it seems in retrospect that the late 70s were the last chance for too many things in America, labor, environment, imperial policy.  Carter failed and failed to stop the insanity ascendancy of the Republicans with Reagan as their figurehead.  As soon as those evil bastards began destroying the society, it was too late.  Carter had a chance but was not up to the task, or, more properly, American society was not up to the task, too exceptionally stupid to stand for something other than basest selfishness and hatred.