People forget how bad things were in 1980.
And good threads never die! The only good thing Jimmy Carter did, was to get Democrats to leave the party and sign up as Republicans. I converted from the party of evil because of the peanut-man. As a young man I was trying to raise a family, and double-digit inflation and a screwed-up economy made it very difficult.
During President Reagan's time in the White House things went very well for me and my family. Reagan is the greatest president of the 20th century; and Carter is the worst.