.. I put that at about a five decade period? "Hipster" wasn't really a thing until about the Obama era, and the "party of the deep south" ended round about the Civil Rights Act?

Carter lost due to (a) oil crisis inflation driven by OPEC and (b) the botched military operation in Iran, neither of which outcomes were really within his control.

(The emphasis on Benghazi used against Hilary Clinton was clearly driven by this strategy having worked previously)