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[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Carter was a conservative in most ways. He was the first neoliberal to win office and many of the policy agendas that he set both parties continue to pursue

https://time.com/6338234/jimmy-carter-conservative-president/

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yep, Noam Chomsky calls Nixon the last liberal president and he’s right. Carter was only at the beginning of the post New Deal reforms, so he wasn’t a full on demon like later traitors, but his record is clear.