Forty-four years elapsed between the time Jimmy Carter left the presidency and the day he died.
Four decades seems like a long time – a record for a former US president – yet many of the challenges facing America in 2024 are not that different from the ones Carter faced, and at times succumbed to, in the late 1970s.
The US during the Carter years faced a crisis of confidence. Americans were grappling with economic turmoil at home and a range of challenges to US power abroad. Fast forward four decades, and the players and issues are strikingly familiar – the economy and the…
