Usually it’s ultra-liberals that wax poetic about Carter’s policies.
For some reason they think the gas lines and stagflation were good things, that the economy being crap was great.
It’s a part of the whole “America must be humiliated” thing the left does.
Though here in NY I’ve heard one or two claimants say they were Republicans right before praising the peanutman.
I give the Peanut Farmer credit for two things, and only one of them, highly conditionally:
1.) His disastrous attempt at rescuing the hostages being held by the Iranians in Operation Eagle Claw did have one key positive thing: It hit the entire American military establishment in the face with the cold reality that they needed to develop infrastructure, processes, and procedures for joint operations. And I do give him a very small modicum of credit for at least trying. Doesn’t bring those eight men back who lost their lives though.
2.) He is closer to the end of his life than the beginning.
And that is it.