In the long run, it’s all about … the long run.
The answer was no, and Reagan won in a landslide. But for all its political potency, that is not the only big question we should be posing about our presidents. The more historically significant question is, “Will America be better off in the long run because this person was in the Oval Office?”
With Trump, the answer is an obvious no. Other presidents are trickier to assess. Harry S. Truman was highly unpopular when he left office; it was four decades before his achievements were fully appreciated. The same is now true of Carter, a political and stylistic failure but a substantive and farsighted success.The lazy shorthand on Carter is that he was an inept president and a great former president.
As president, Carter was a mediocre communicator. He was both made and unmade by the post-Watergate press corps, which pumped him up as a fresh-faced outsider in 1976 and ripped him unfairly in 1980. Reporters often hyped meaningless stories — for instance,approaching his canoe — while yawning when he signed dozens of bills that changed the country.
Carter was the greatest environmental president since Theodore Roosevelt. Among many accomplishments, he provided the first support for alternative energy ; imposed the first fuel-economy
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