712: The origins of the bitter divide date to Bush v. Gore, 2000. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion
Image: Vare–Wilson election case, 1/15/27 The origins of the bitter divide date to Bush v. Gore, 2000. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion Dan Henninger: @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion; editorial board and Wonder Land column; in re: Whence the bitterness among us now about the election? Start with the election of 2000: hanging chads. Bush and Gore were separated by fewer than 600 votes. Ultimately resolved by the Supreme Court, ruled 5–4 that George W Bush had won. Democrats believed the election was stolen by the Court; partisanship subsequently widened. At present, refusal of the president to concede and Biden’s inability to get on with a transition. Al Gore conceded on election night, then withdrew it; it eventually took 37 days to resolve it, via first the Florida supreme court then at the federal Supreme Court. Has anyone apologized to Donald Trump for three years of the Russian allegations that turned out to be meaningless? Why would anyone be surprised after all the falsity that was dumped on him for years? Mrs Clinton called President Trump “illegitimate,” even after the Mueller investigation came to naught. Despite the deep harassment, the administration accomplished important matters: the cooling of tensions in the Middle East, tax reforms, legal shifts to free unjustly incarcerated prisoners, a major reduction of North Korean missile shots over Japan, the assemblage of the Quad, Japan, Australia, India, and the US, to counter China’s aggressive, illegal and, as it turns out, lethal predations. https:// (https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-florida-nightmare-11605134036?st=mnluvam99vfq0ei&reflink=article_copyURL_share) https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-florida-nightmare-11605134036?st=mnluvam99vfq0ei&reflink=article_copyURL_share