A madness rune of a book. Toobin does a great job clearly laying out the narrative and warring priorities of each party. Florida is truly a cursed state, and the chips were stacked against Gore from the start.

Tough to call the United States a democracy when you have gerrymandered districts, a deeply unequal and tilted senate, an electoral college that inherits most of those difficulties while also rendering most votes unimportant, and a calvinball judicial branch stacked with right-wing reactionaries. You can trace most of our current problems back to this festering sore of a constitution, and the alternative of a convention would be instantly captured by capital and threaten to become even worse.

God damn America, as they say.