Who was old enough to vote for Jimmy Carter

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115. I was a toddler in the Carter years - and in Argentina. But I can say this:

The fascist dictatorship in power at the time - and nearly all their supporters and apologists at the time - hated Jimmy Carter.

Why? Mainly because Carter and his Secretary of State, Cy Vance, did everything they could to persuade and pressure the dictatorship to stop "disappearing" people.

His every stumble - including the one he had while jogging in '79 - was gloated at in the local media. And his defeat was met with jubilation in right-wing circles, with parties held in Reagan's honor at the mansions of some of the well-to-do.

And then, just two months after Carter left office, Argentina collapsed.

The massive foreign debt bubble, mostly taken on to finance elites' mass dollarizing and offshoring of assets, imploded the economy - as did the dictatorship's "remedies" (which - like Bush in '08 - basically punished society at large for the crisis elites had caused).

Argentina never fully recovered (least of all now - with Trump's mini-me, Milei, wrecking the little that still worked for them).