It is reasonable that things got bad on Dec 12 2000, but I contend that things have gotten worse (at least from a liberal PoV). I don't know understand the goal of projecting it as always being bad. I think that hides nuances or details that matter.
It is reasonable that things got bad on Dec 12 2000, but I contend that things have gotten worse (at least from a liberal PoV).
What could be worse "from a liberal PoV" than the Supreme Court, on a 5-4 party-line vote, stopping the recount in Florida and thus giving the 2000 election to Bush, who then went on to become President for 8 years?
Even Hillary Clinton doesn't dispute that that she lost the electoral college in 2016, democratically, according to your definition. She conceded on election night.
January 6 was ugly, but Trump still left office at the end of his term.
I don't know understand the goal of projecting it as always being bad. I think that hides nuances or details that matter.
The goal is to break you out of a dogmatic slumber, in which you seem to think that everything was basically ok until Trump came along. It wasn't.
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It is reasonable that things got bad on Dec 12 2000, but I contend that things have gotten worse (at least from a liberal PoV). I don't know understand the goal of projecting it as always being bad. I think that hides nuances or details that matter.
What could be worse "from a liberal PoV" than the Supreme Court, on a 5-4 party-line vote, stopping the recount in Florida and thus giving the 2000 election to Bush, who then went on to become President for 8 years?
Even Hillary Clinton doesn't dispute that that she lost the electoral college in 2016, democratically, according to your definition. She conceded on election night.
January 6 was ugly, but Trump still left office at the end of his term.
The goal is to break you out of a dogmatic slumber, in which you seem to think that everything was basically ok until Trump came along. It wasn't.