The Party of Carter Wouldn’t Get Carter

Carter and President Gerald Ford debating at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, September 1976 – Public Domain

Jimmy Carter is garnering more attention for becoming a centenarian on October 1 than he did when he was the first former president of the USA to celebrate a 96th birthday. Yet what thin hope I held in 2020 that the Democratic candidate might “follow Carter’s deregulatory path” seems even more distant from a party that will have further lost its way even if it defeats Donald Trump’s second bid at re-election.