Guess Carter is serving Shit Sandwiches with his own secret Malaise Sauce.
GA Jimmuh never used the word “malaise”; they was a media-inspired term. The American people saw Carter as flawed but not the Democrats per se, who they think still watch over “the little people”.
Actually, the speech rightly described the mood of the country at the time he delivered it. The problem was that Carter was not the man to lead us, to give us hope.