"History will treat him well."

Depends who's writing it, eh? It's both amazing and shameless, the media's re-writing and redefining of history. Anyone waiting through gas lines and rationing hated him, which was most of the country. The hostages just added on that. Look at the election map of Reagan to see how popular Carter was, and realize that the media and school textbooks have been polishing the image ever since.

I have read that his tanking was intentional though: he was purposefully working to get Reagan elected. That's a bit too shadowy of a conspiracy theory for me to investigate, though. But the idea is the same as Biden being on a script. Just that Biden is bigger.

"History will treat him well."

Depends who's writing it, eh? It's both amazing and shameless, the media's re-writing and redefining of history. Anyone waiting through gas lines and rationing hated him, which was most of the country. The hostages just added on that. Look at the election map of Reagan to see how popular Carter was, and realize that the media and school textbooks have been polishing the image ever since.