I do not believe Carter is naive. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy & a former sub commander. Naivete could not survive those 2 challenges.
Carter hates America for running him out of office in 1980. Ted Kennedy tried & failed to take him out in the Rat primary, but Reagan beat him badly in the general election. IIRC, even his home state Georgia voted against him.
Only spite could drive a man to say & do the despicable things he has said & done. No good that he has ever done can compensate for the evil he has perpetuated.
“Carter hates America for running him out of office in 1980. Ted Kennedy tried & failed to take him out in the Rat primary, but Reagan beat him badly in the general election. IIRC, even his home state Georgia voted against him.”
No, he did win Georgia. But as everyone knows, a president who faces strong primary challenges does not get reelected.
I mentioned Carter’s visit to NK in a thread the other day, and the only conclusion to be made was that a guy who would think Pyongyang was like Times Square in New York is functionally insane.
Admittedly, he wasn’t the only person to be duped by North Korea. Billy Graham got snookered pretty badly as well.
And, as we all should know by now, Jimmy Carter is a spiteful little man. Emphasis on the word "little"...
The only reason he got involved in the White House tennis court scheduling is because that was all he was competent to do.