I’ve had a hypothetical “Clinton resigns during Monicagate” alternate history movie in my head for a while. Gore ends up narrowly winning the contested 2000 election because he is the incumbent president. The film ends the twin towers being struck on 9/11 and the media asking President Gore for a response.
I wonder if Gore would have declared Islam a "religion of peace" and and given the TSA cart blanche to feel up little girls while ignoring people from the mideast? That would have been terrible!
I have thought about this a lot.
I don’t see how Gore’s response to 9/11 could have been any worse than Bush’s. At least when Gore said Islam was a “religion of peace” there would have been about 50 million Americans calling bullshit. I think you would have had conservatives joining with the ACLU to denounce the Patriot Act. As it turned out, nobody on our side said a word about Bush doing any of that. If Gore won in 2000, we likely would have never had to suffer under Obama. We may not have needed an “America First” type of President until 2024 or 2028.