Everything Jimmah Caaatah did both big things (giving away the Panama Canal and Iran) and small things (stupid new laws and taxes), were all specifically designed with the intent to severely damage and harm America.
The Leftist mentality both then and now was and is that America is too rich, too successful, and too white. They have it in their minds that America need punishment and it is their mission in life to make this happen. America needs to be brought down to the level of all the shithole countries in the world to make things equal.
Buffoon Carter was not a buffoon. He was a man with a very specific mission to destroy America as a first world nation. Jimmy Carter was the first manifestation of Joe Biden. Whereas Biden is senile and demented and had no idea what his staff was doing, Carter knew very well what he was doing, and he did it all with enthusiasm and with a very distinct purpose.