That time we elected Al Gore but the election was kicked into the courts-. Wasn't that a coup?

Nobody thinks having a huge war on terror in response to 9-11 was the plan, do they?
How completely different was the 2000 election to the Capitol Insurrection? How separate are the participants from Republicans back then? Totally, right,?

How unrelated was the 2000 election to our democracy problem,?

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It's not unrelated. It was an example of a president losing an election and the courts deciding the outcome. Sort of a precursor to what Trump wanted to happen in 2020. There are differences, of course; it hinged on one state's results (Florida) and the cessation of further recounts. It was due to a very close result in a contested state, not the result of false accusations of fraud done preemptively to undermine the eventual result. But it is not unrelated.