What If Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy Did Not Divide the Democrats in 1980?

Lessons from history for both parties

If Democrats Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy could have seen the future in 1978 and known that their feud would lead to Republicans dominating the White House and the Senate from 1981 to 1993, might they have patched things up? They both viewed the Reagan years as contributing to dramatic income inequality, a sop to the wealthiest, massive and unnecessa…