Unrelated events in recent days demonstrate conclusively that Jimmy Carter was the nation’s worst president, even worse than Joe Biden, who only pretended to be president. Carter was actually running the show in the late 1970s, and he made a mess of things.

First, although most commentators acknowledge that today’s events in Iran began in November 1979, they err by pointing to the day Islamic radicals seized 66 American hostages. In truth, they began when Carter, after rushing the shah of Iran out, welcomed back the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom his advisors called a “Gandhi-like figure,” “a saint,” and a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”