If an outsider were to look at Presidential elections over the past few decades, he’d be forgiven for thinking that we’re, well, a little schizophrenic. Our presidential choices oscilate from conservative to liberal pretty regularly, and that’s without taking into account our last two elections–where we elected our first Black President and then immediately followed it up with a President that shows far less deference to non-white Americans. It really does send mixed signals to ourselves and the world when the American people can’t seem to decide which ideology fits them best. But, and this is what we’ve been thinking about here at the Appendix, what if there is a strand of commonality between the election of Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump, and the multifarious selection of presidents in between