If Carter had been reelected, the Berlin Wall would still be there.
Hell, with Carter reelected, we probably would have gone for unilateral disarmament. In 1984, with no serious Republican opposition, it probably would have been President Mondale. THAT would have impressed the Soviets.
Lord knows the U.S.S.R. didn't want Reagan to be president.
The fact that Reagan's role in ending the Cold War is so enthusiastically suppressed tells me how deeply that cut the Left.
Gorbachev got a goddam Nobel Prize.