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Inflation Politics with Tim Barker

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Jimmy Carter's Idiotism

i will link to my interview with melinda cooper in the show notes. It's a really good one, and her book is excellent. What about sident jimmy carter's idiology? How did the leader of a democratic party that had embraced full employment come to so readily embrace austerity? i think one way into it is to think about carter as an individual. He's not connected to the kind of labor liberal traditions that had sustained someone like hubert humphrey.

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