Carter had principles. He didn't want to play the Washington I'll-scratch-your-back-if-your-scratch-mine game. He wasn't afraid to speak truth to power and he wasn't going to waste time kissing their corporate-loving asses to get things done. He was an environmentalist and put his money where his mouth was by placing solar panels on the White House (which Reagan removed). He was against giving China MFN status because of their human rights abuses. His base didn't leave him, it was the MOR's, the "Independents" (my ass!) who left him. The left LOVED him and still do.
Obama identifies with (and publicly praises) Reagan.
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