Charlie Kirk Wrong About Jimmy Carter

Charlie Kirk recently praised the late Jimmy Carter.  In a recent post he wrote:

“Jimmy Carter represents a type of Democrat that no longer exists.  Christian, loving husband and a true patriot.  He was objectively an awful president, but he loved America and never intentionally tried to do it harm.  America could use more Democrats like him.”

While he was a loving husband, and an awful president, everything else Charlie Kirk said about him is wrong.  I agree with Charlie on many issues, appreciate his work in college campuses, and the role he took in getting young people to the polls, but he got this wrong.  He is not alone; however, many conservatives have expressed similar sentiments. They look at his work with Habitat for Humanity while overlooking his record and his unwavering support for the globalists and the Democrat Party.

During the Carter Administration, I was a soldier in the U.S Army.  After my basic training at Fort Dix NJ, and advanced training at Fort Lee, VA,* I did a tour of duty in Augsburg, West Germany in a field artillery unit with nuclear capabilities followed by a tour of duty at Fort Campbell, KY in the 101st Airbourne Division.  While they didn’t call it DEI back then, we had a mandatory 40-hour race relations class. The men conducting the class were vile, and anti-White.   A Green Beret officer, forced to attend, walked out in disgust.   In the wake of these classes, race relations deteriorated.  As a 19-year-old, I concluded that destroying race relations was the goal.  During a battalion formation, we had to listen to a delegation from the Defense Department explaining how vastly inferior we were to the Soviets and Eastern Bloc nations.  I asked why they don’t tell this to Congress and the President.” My question was never answered, but a senior NCO said to me “Shurtleff, why don’t you chase German, girls, drink beer, do your time, and don’t worry about these things.”   Years later I learned that Carter’s National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski-the father of Mika-advised Carter that if the Soviets attack NATO, let them have half.  I was in that half of NATO that he was happy to give the Soviets.

When I left Boston for my military service, the cost of renting a decent one-room bedroom apartment in my neighborhood was $125. to $175.  When I left the Army in 1980 and returned home, the cost of a one-bedroom apartment tripled.  While all the blame cannot be laid upon Carter, his economic policies had led to double digit inflation and economic stagnation.  The term “stagflation” was popularized during Carter’s term.  While the media convinced voters that Jimmy Carter was an outsider, he was a charter member of the Trilateral Commission, an organization dedicated to a global government, and an “America Last” policy.   Carter filled his cabinet with both Trilateral Commission and Council of Foreign Relations members.  Carter’s international policy led Zbigniew Brzezinski-the ultimate Deep Stater -was an unmitigated disaster for the U.S. and its allies.  Brzezinski had a love affair with Marxism.  He remarked that “Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief.”

Carter betrayed the Shah of Iran that led to a takeover by radical Islamists, and the taking of American hostages.   We are still paying for that disaster.  The Carter Administration supported sanctions against Rhodesia which helped communist terrorist Robert Mugabe into power.  Carter betrayed Somoza of Nicaragua paving the way for the communist Sandinista takeover of that once vibrant nation. He cut formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of diplomatic relations with Communist China.   Perhaps his most destructive foreign policy was the giving of the Panama Canal to dictator Omar Torrijos. A provision in the treaty gave Panama millions of dollars to take the canal build by U.S. taxpayer money.  Panama used a good portion of that money to pay off loans to the U.S. based Marine Midland Bank.

While his administration was supporting our enemies, he slashed the U.S. Military budget, opposed the B-1 bomber, the MX missile, and the development of the neutron bomb.  He supported the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union while acknowledging that the Soviets had violated the SALT I treaty. He also vetoed the construction of new aircraft carriers.  As mentioned above, his military embraced an early version of D.E.I. with the mandatory race relations classes which helped to further erode morale

Carter’s domestic policies were not much better.  His support of an increase in the minimum wage led to a high unemployment mainly for Blacks.  While promising not to raise taxes for working families, he promptly supported tax policies that led to high inflation.  His windfall profit tax on crude oil led to a huge increase in the cost of gasoline while discouraging domestic production.    He supported a tax on imported oil and an tax increase on gasoline.  These two measures were thankfully defeated.

While calling himself a “Born Again” Christian, he supported abortion while president and “same sex” marriage in later years.  He, and all of the other ex-presidents came out in support of the job killing and unconstitutional NAFTA agreement. He was a diehard Democrat never wavering in his support for the destructive policies of the Democrat Party.   His last political act was voting for Kamala Harris.  The late Congressman Larry McDonald ran an open letter to Carter in the New York Times listing his disastrous policies and concluded “You either know what you are doing, or you don’t.”  It is my opinion base on the facts that he did indeed know what he was doing.  He wasn’t a patriot who loved America and never intentionally intended to harm America.  Based on his support for abortion, “same-sex marriage, and the entire agenda of the Democrat Party, I would have to seriously question his commitment to Jesus Christ.  I do, however, hope that he repented of his sins and is now in the presence of the Lord.

In 1980, Gary Allen authored a detailed article on Carter entitled “The Background and Record of Jimmy Carter:”

https://s3.amazonaws.com/camppictures/CampArchive/General/Carter%20Record.pdf

• The cultural Marxists under the Biden Admin changed the name of the fort.  When I was there in 1977, the training units were predominately Black and, as far I knew, there was not any issue with the name of the fort.