For better or worse, I've found reading (deep dives) US history adequately anesthetizes one to modern day shenanigans. But you raise a good point in that Al Go

For better or worse, I've found reading (deep dives) US history adequately anesthetizes one to modern day shenanigans. But you raise a good point in that Al Gore was far more gracious when aggrieved. He comported himself with the norms established in the last 60 years during the modern mass media era.