ANALYSIS: TRUE. Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President. “Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era. After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described ‘citizen of the world’ spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.”

Carter only gets partial credit for deregulation and appointing an inflation hawk to chair the Fed because those things were going to happen under Reagan, anyway.