Was Jimmy Carter an Outlier?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : A foreign policy prophet who "refused to take us to war" or fall prey to what he called "our inordinate fear of Communism," Carter birthed a human rights revolution in US foreign policy that "none of his successors" could "walk back."
55% : (Oh, and about those solar panels: Carter's energy policies were far more about economic nationalism than conservation; much more important than promoting renewable energy was promoting American coal to replace imported oil.)
49% : Yet the die had been cast: Carter's economic policies on inflation and deregulation would set the standard for the Democratic Party.
45% : We are told about his noble internal state at times when Carter does things that are not liberal, populist, or bold -- such as when he praised the shah of Iran as an admirable leader, unceremoniously fired a feminist aide for perceived disloyalty, or ordered the CIA to prop up the anti-communist dictator of Nicaragua.
43% : This conviction would prove fateful in the decades to come: The next two Democratic presidents would sacrifice federal spending, especially on social programs, upon this same altar.
40% : Later in the campaign, he explained that the wave of inflation that the United States had suffered in 1974 and '75 had been the "transient" consequence of "the big jump in oil and food prices" -- explicitly rejecting the regnant theory that it was caused by excessive government spending.
39% : Carter began his presidency announcing that human rights would be the new benchmark for US foreign policy -- to replace, as he put it in a glorious speech that first, hopeful spring of 1977, an "inordinate fear of Communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in our fear.
37% : When inflation again surged, he lectured that the cause was excessive government spending, to which the only appropriate response was... sacrifice.

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