I know that I'm wasting time and energy trying to make points with people like you who want to rely on their own bubble rather than such details as what actually happy. But for the record, as someone who lived through and remembers the 2000 election which at this point no one else seems to, here are some things you all have convenient forgotten:

1. No one thought that Gore was better than Bush in the entire 2000 campaign. Indeed the attitude of the general public was: it doesn't make a difference. As I recall the only candidate many people cared about in 2000, the only 'authentic' one was Ralph Nader. I imagine the loudest voices now have blocked the fact that most of them not only thought this way but voted for Nader.

2. There was no mandate for Al Gore. the 2000 election was a tie. Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes, one half of one percent. America really couldn't make up its mind between the two of them. Or for that matter the two parties. The republicans lost 2 seats, the Democrats gained one. The Senate was tied at 50-50. Please tell me again how millions of americans favors the Democarts and no one favored the Republicans. And this actually brings me to one more minor point that no one during the 2000 election seems to care about.

3. Al Gore couldn't carry his home state of Tennessee. I realized you've convinced yourself that Tennessee is a deep red state and therefore unworthy of being worthy of votes but Clinton carried it. Twice. Tennesse in 2000 had 11 electoral votes. If Gore had carried his home state, he would have had 278 electoral votes and Florida would have been a footnote in American history.

But of course I've no doubt in your scenario the only thing Al Gore did was concede in 2000. I bet you would have whispered in his ears. You have to announce the winner in the electoral college. Why don't you just say I won Florida? Gore refused to hear any of the challenges that were being made. He followed the rule of law. And for the record no one had a high opinion of Al Gore until after Florida. nO one thought Bush was a monster until after FLorida. All of America thought the way the left did: there is no difference between the two parties.

Look I get you want to make sure the Republicans never win another election. I'm sorry, make sure that every vote in America counts equally. This has absolutely nothing to do with making sure a political party that has leaders and the people who vote for it morally despicable and unworthy of representation. It absolves any real flaws any defeated Democratic candidate has and puts the onus on all of the watchwards of the left, all of which you more than bandy about here. aND by the way, funny how you only started caring about the Supreme court in the last twenty years and who gets to appoint justices. If it was really life and death you guys would have voting Democrat in eevry election in every election for years.

Congratulations for managing leftist bingo in this article: small states bad, big states good, electoral college evil popular vote good, packing the Supreme Court - really just start all of your articles syaing Republicans are evil incarnate, anyone who votes for them is not a really human being and they should all be banned from existing? That's all every one of these articles really is at its core. Just be the bigoted monsters we all know you really are. You claim you hate dog whistles. Stop using academia as cover.