Given all the problems he had during his presidency, history actually is pretty kind to Jimmy Carter.
It's rare that anybody talks about him being a bad president anymore. Heck, when McEnany was telling lie after lie to defend her boss' attack-peaceful-protesters-for-photo-op thing, she brought up 4 comparisons: Churchill assessing the damage during WW2, Dubya throwing out the first pitch after 9/11, Bush Sr. signing the ADA while flanked by disabled people ... "and Jimmy Carter putting on a sweater to encourage energy savings."
The entire comparison was outrageous, of course, but that's not the point. History remembers Carter quite fondly. Why? Because he's a great human being. He certainly didn't "wish well" any sexual predators.
Jimmy Carter actually was a pretty decent president. Two Ayatollahs -- Volecker and Khomeini -- took him down. Consider that he passed major environmental legislation, shut down wasteful water projects, negotiated a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel that still holds, deregulated the airline industry, trucking and railroad business and even killed the wasteful B-1 bomber (that President Ronald Reagan brought back).
President Carter's decoupling of our foreign policy from the Kissinger/Nixon geopolitical strategies led to a new focus on human rights. His tough talk with the Soviet Union about the 1980 invasion of Afghanistan and boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics made it possible for President Reagan to take a very tough stand with the Soviets, leading to their downfall.
President Carter's problems occurred because he was a Washington outsider who stood up to the powers that were at the time (ahem... Tip O'Neill). Our country is a lot better off today -- as is our world -- because of the work of Jimmy Carter.
