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It's always appropriate to speak the truth.
Presidents are faced with all kinds of choices between two bad options. They become known for the one they choose. We don't get that kind of reckoning.
Like, I voted for Kamala. Looking at me through the eye of history's telescope, some would say I voted to support genocide in Lebanon. I could argue well, there was a worse option and I didn't vote for that one.
Do we know what Jimmy Carter was rejecting when he chose the options he did? I don't.
Like Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, "What is truth?"
I voted for Jimmy Carter twice. Best president of my lifetime.
I get it, you want to whitewash him because you're whitewashing yourself. You supported genocide and it behooves you to position yourself as if that wasn't an affirmative choice by absolving a historic monster who actually had full agency over his actions.