A key moment when the GOP drew the lesson that constitutional hardball worked for them, and that Democrats would relent if the GOP was intransigent enough.
A nice touch linking our present moment with that history. Convicted Trump associate, Roger Stone, helped organize the Brooks Brothers rally. 
Fascinating contemporary reporting from Time magazine. content.time.com/time/nation/ar…
As someone who lived through this, I experienced this 2000 election fiasco as the continuation of the GOP’s failed, cynical impeachment push of 1998.
A reminder that Sheila Jackson Lee saw clearly what was happening. The GOP tends to favor local control, until those localities threaten their power. c-span.org/video/?160925-…
Don't want to reopen old wounds from 2000, but another lesson I learned from 2000, as someone who voted for Gore but would have voted for Nader if I was in a solidly blue or red state, is this. if only 1% of Florida Nader voters had picked Gore, he would have won.
Given that many if not most Nader voters were progressives who were dissatisfied with the Clinton/Gore centrist consensus, those swing-state progressives who voted principle over pragmatism in 2000 unintentionally helped Bush win.
In 2016 when a few swing state friends and acquaintances of mine announced they were voting for Stein I had some major flashbacks to 2000. FWIW, Stein's vote totals in MI, WI, and PA were all higher than Trump's margin of victory over Clinton in those states.
There are many ways to interpret these numbers. I don't want to relitigate 2000 or 2016, and I'm not stanning for Gore or HRC. I'm just saying, the vote is a tool, not a statement of principle. Moral victories in elections are not victories. They're losses.
My grandmother had a saying, "If your grandmother had wheels she'd be a streetcar." It sounded better in Yiddish. Anyway, the point being, it does little good to ask "What if?" because, well...that "what if" didn't happen. But it can be a useful heuristic sometimes.
Just to cut the 2000 Florida folks some slack, it's also worth noting that Nader's vote total in NH also exceeded Bush's margin of victory there. That state going to Gore would have also tipped the Electoral College in his favor, even without Florida.
