So, Trump was elected a year ago.

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Why do you call it "worrisome"?  I'd think anyone sane would be glad that President Windrip's enablers can't get things done.

I am glad.

But it's worrisome because this points towards major structural issues in the Republican party. In a time of partisan partyline unity the majority party that has more than half the seats and the presidency and thus nearly guaranteed to succeed in bringing its bills to the floor and signed into law cannot do so, has not done so in fact for a year for any bill they ran on. Despite multiple attempts to do so.

This shows a massive failure of the Republican party in its politics. More worrisome, most of those proposals they failed on are a result of either the public getting angry at them for betraying them (and forcing party members to heed them for fear of a recall election or certain failure to reelect) or by members getting angry the party is attempting to ram legislature through the process without proper review, which implies rather strongly that the party leadership knows that with proper review their constituents would get angry at them for their betrayal.

Jimmy Carter is a Democrat.

This paragraph from his Wikipedia page is interesting:

On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all evaders of the Vietnam War drafts. During Carter's term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front he confronted persistent "stagflation", a combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter ended détente, escalated the Cold War, and led the international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1980, Carter faced a primary challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy, but Carter won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election in an electoral landslide to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president.

He did all that in one term, and he's considered to be below-average.

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The US desperately needs more Democrats and Democrat party presidents. Preferably more such presidents of Jimmy Carter's stripes; the man appears to have been more able in 4 years than Obama or Clinton were in 8.

He was and still is a driving force behind Habitat for Humanity, the group that helps promote affordable housing by going out and building it.

I have nothing but respect for Mr. Carter.