We also heard runaway inflation. Today’s economy is no better, but in a very different way.
Reagan was “real”.
We liked him.
Just like Trump.
The Iran hostage thing was big at the time. I remember the big fear in gop circles at the time (I was working the election) was that Carter would bring home the hostages as a late October surprise. It didn’t materialize.
While the press was in the Carter camp, it was nowhere near as overt as it is this time with the witch.