Then Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter addresses the National Democratic Issues Convention in 1975.
t took Republicans more than three weeks, and three failed attempts, to select Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson as the new Speaker of the House. The paralysis this caused exacerbated the long term public distrust in government that dates to the late 1960s. Even before the House flailed for weeks,believed Congress could be trusted to formulate national policy or that the executive branch could execute it.
Carter began as the longest of longshot candidates. He was a one-term Georgia governor with scant national name recognition. He aimed to become the first Deep South president since 1850. To many Northern voters and political commentators, Carter’s profound Baptist faith seemed eccentric. “Relax,” archly counseledthat became the model for all future candidates. His team focused on making Carter a personality and spotlighted his values using a sophisticated media strategy.
Thankfully for Carter, his rivals were creatures of Congress, which enabled him to shrewdly avoid having to run against them individually and ideologically. Instead Carter could campaign against the national political system and the federal government itself—which he depicted as corrupt and inefficient. By doing so, Carter could exploit what political scientisttermed an “enormous crisis of political legitimacy” that had arisen from 1960s social change, the catastrophe of Vietnam, and Watergate.
Years before anti-government conservatives were swept into power, this rhetoric helped convince Americans who had justifiably lost confidence in Washington that restoring government required an outsider who would shake things up. Once Carter captured the White House with this barrage, he created a model for every presidential candidate moving forward.
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