Interesting perspective there. I'll have to ponder it.

If Carter's attempt at rescuing the Iranian hostages had succeeded I think he would have been re-elected.

His failure to recognize the power if the petrol dollar in absence of the gold standard due to Nixon taking us off of it (a controversial but inevitable move in my view) and embrace other measures if wealth as it influences GDP caught the West with it's pants down.

Modern Capitalism has kind of sorted that out but the progressive Left is choking it now with stupid shit like the Green New Deal.