#1684 The Last Honest President: The imperfect life and legacy of Jimmy Carter
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 170 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 1/18/2025
We are looking back on Jimmy Carter's life and legacy as a lens through which to more clearly see and understand the current state of our politics, our incoming president, the Middle East, the climate, and more.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Jimmy Carter Part 1 - Past Present - Air Date 2-28-23
KP 4: The Faith of Jimmy Carter - Facepalm America - Air Date 4-12-23
KP 6: When Carter called out America - Today, Explained - Air Date 12-30-24
(46:27) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the supposed desire for truth
DEEPER DIVES
(52:22) SECTION A: HISTORICAL CONTEXT
(1:33:23) SECTION B: FOREIGN POLICY
(2:07:22) SECTION C: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
(2:25:30) SECTION D: REPUBLICAN RATFUCKING
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Description: Black and white photo of President Jimmy Carter in front of the White House in 1977. Credit: "President Jimmy Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House, Washington, D.C." by Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress | License: Public Domain
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| 0:33.2 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | We look back on Jimmy Carter's life and legacy as a lens through which to more clearly see and understand the current state of our politics, our incoming president, the Middle East, the climate, and more. |
| 0:50.1 | For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes |
| 0:54.9 | today includes past present, the Brian Lehrer Show, Democracy Now, Face Palm America, |
| 1:01.9 | Holy Post, and Today Explained. |
| 1:04.7 | Then, in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections. |
| 1:09.0 | Section A, Historical Context, Section A, historical context, section B, foreign |
| 1:12.8 | policy, section C, Christian nationalism, and section D, Republican rat-b- |
| 1:18.5 | I think that it's important to keep Carter's presidency in the context of the particular moment in which he became president, that he wanted the presidency to be small and to not be cashing in and to not be corrupt is very much a response to the Nixon administration and to Watergate and this idea that |
| 1:46.1 | you needed to restore trust and confidence in American institutions. And that was far too |
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