Intro

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Post Show Musings

Outro

Today we begin our look back at the brief but remarkable tenure of President Jimmy Carter. The late 70s is a fascinating period on a number of levels. Civil Rights groups had fractured into several pieces, the Vietnam era had come to a disgraceful close and the economy was beginning to falter after more than two decades of astounding post-war growth for the middle class in particular. The GOP’s grip on Washington was tenuous after Nixon’s resignation and the country wasn’t sure whether Ford was up to the task. For their part, Democrats were still healing from the ‘68 Convention and being sidelined by Nixon’s GOP. Out of the fog came a slow talking southern boy named Jimmy who shocked the world and secured the Democratic nomination for president. This is his origin story.

Chapters

Intro: 00:02:04

Chapter One: The Origin Story. 00:08:18

Chapter Two: A Good Old Boy Bids for the White House. 00:14:29

Post Show Musings: 00:23:22

Outro: 00:30:06

Resources

Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Panama Canal and the Torrijos-Carter Treaties 

The New York Times: Jimmy Carter’s Unheralded Legacy

The Atlantic: The Passionless Presidency

Vox: The Republican myth of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages, debunked

Politico: The Humiliating Handshake and the Near-Fistfight that Broke the Democratic Party

Brookings: Today’s global economy is eerily similar to the 1970s, but governments can still escape a stagflation episode

Book Love

Kai Bird: The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

David Rockefeller: Memoirs

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Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic."

Today we begin our look back at the brief but remarkable tenure of President Jimmy Carter. The late 70s is a fascinating period on a number of levels. Civil Rights groups had fractured into several pieces, the Vietnam era had come to a disgraceful close and the economy was beginning to falter after more than two decades of astounding post-war growth for the middle class in particular. The GOP’s grip on Washington was tenuous after Nixon’s resignation and the country wasn’t sure whether Ford was up to the task. For their part, Democrats were still healing from the ‘68 Convention and being sidelined by Nixon’s GOP. Out of the fog came a slow talking southern boy named Jimmy who shocked the world and secured the Democratic nomination for president. This is his origin story.
Chapters
Intro: 00:02:04
Chapter One: The Origin Story. 00:08:18
Chapter Two: A Good Old Boy Bids for the White House. 00:14:29
Post Show Musings: 00:23:22
Outro: 00:30:06
Resources
Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/panama-canal">The Panama Canal and the Torrijos-Carter Treaties </a>
The New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/jimmy-carters-unheralded-legacy.html">Jimmy Carter’s Unheralded Legacy</a> 
The Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/05/the-passionless-presidency/308516/">The Passionless Presidency</a>
Vox: <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10826056/reagan-iran-hostage-negotiation">The Republican myth of Ronald Reagan and the Iran hostages, debunked</a> 
Politico: <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/21/camelots-end-kennedy-vs-carter-democratic-convention-1980-224030/">The Humiliating Handshake and the Near-Fistfight that Broke the Democratic Party</a> 
Brookings: <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2022/07/01/todays-global-economy-is-eerily-similar-to-the-1970s-but-governments-can-still-escape-a-stagflation-episode/#:~:text=The%20stagflation%20of%20the%201970s,and%20many%20low%2Dincome%20countries">Today’s global economy is eerily similar to the 1970s, but governments can still escape a stagflation episode</a>
Book Love
Kai Bird: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780451495242">The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter</a>
David Rockefeller: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780812969733">Memoirs</a>
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Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 

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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

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