Too many voters have no idea what the Carter years were like.
Sadly, I think they will find out first hand what a misery index is.
And, malaise...
Blast from the past.............
I remember Jimmy and his misery index. He said that a president who was in office with such a misery index had no business even running for election. President Ford was filling out the unexpired term of Nixon, and running for election in his own right in 1976.
Then, in 1980, Jimmy had nothing to say about the misery index when by his own criteria, he himself should not have even been running for re-election.
That’s how stupid politics can be. Democrats usually are the culprits, who invent half-baked criteria like a misery index as a form of passing judgement. Then, when they themselves are judged using those criteria, they have some excuse why it shouldn’t apply to them.
The people took care of Jimmy that year though.