Jimmy Carter was unjustly shit on for years. [View all]

[Tommy Carcetti]

People would not forget his loss to Reagan, the challenges from within his own party, the hostage crisis, having to deal with the leftover economic stagflation from the Nixon years, etc.

He was made out to be the epitome of a failed, one-term presidency.

The public image on him softened a bit when people realized all the good he was doing in his post-presidency and what a remarkable human being he was. But even then, people tended to focus only on that, as opposed to re-evaluating a lot of the things he did as President.

As it turns out, Jimmy Carter did a lot of great things as President. His lasting legacy was far better than what his detractors claimed. There's the Camp David accords, of course. And the Department of Education. And a lot of positive environmental policy. And greater diversity in terms of race and gender than we had ever seen before.

Now, we are looking at another one-term Democratic President being similarly dragged through the mud and attacked, even though he did a tremendous job during his time in office. That we avoided a recession under his watch is nothing short of a miracle on his part, and people forget that too easily.

Unfortunately for Joe Biden, he will not likely have the same benefit of time that Jimmy Carter did--Carter was 56 years old when he left office, as opposed to Biden's 81.

But I can only hope that he lives long enough to see proper justice done to his legacy as President, as opposed to this disgusting hit job that exists at the current moment.