The political polarization stitched in the United States does not spar on the probity that threaded Jimmy Carter’s life: President Carter was a statesman whose unrelenting probity lured him toward the zeitgeist for self-abnegation in lieu of the covetousness for carnal gains.

Carter’s probity, situated in the milieu of governance, can be etched as contentious: His chastity, while endearing to the public’s imagination, was lamentably his Achilles’ heel, as his moral compass rendered him naive to the bureaucracy of Washington.

Carter’s inability to traverse between the law of nature and the law of the revealed shortsighted his presidency—as governance of the demos necessitates helming the former, not the latter.

In the cosmos of the profane, a moral arc is not seeded wholly on an exclusive celestial bandwidth but, rather, on the plane of the law of nature, to rinse out unfair predilections—to eschew one from misruling the body politic.

In a social contract between the governor and the governed, partisanship to ethereal fealty may spawn umbrage among factions of a republic who may not share its tenets.

Stewarding a republic necessitates a prism that commences with a tabula rasa—that chisels the trinkets of natural law to yield equity for all, even if its dividends may be adverse to one’s revealed piety.

The traditions and orthodoxies of a political thespian, while not disarmable, can be a tenable addendum in concocting a policy of equity, as long as the ideologue is curbed when warranted.

The Iranian Hostage Crisis may have been the proverbial writing on the wall during his administration (leading to a one-term presidency), but Carter’s death knell was on the whims of not charting the right moral posture—among his adversaries, to gain a behemoth of concessions for the marginalized elective franchise.

His moral compass, while bona fide, translated into a periodic semblance of patronization and rigid perceptiveness—which are strains of governance that should have been inverted.

Carter’s persuasion on governance, which fixated on welfarism as the precedence for chiseling policies, was par for the course; his blemish was his obstinate moral paradigm that rendered him at an impasse.

Political leadership in the temporal macrocosm, invokes the skew toward the notions of natural law, to yield unconventional stratagems—to govern the demos with efficaciousness.