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Further, I think while the GOP would have been follow up to Gore, there's a good chance we would have gotten McCain, which is pretty good as far as the GOP goes. Then decent chance you might have still had Obama for, say, 2016. We almost certainly wouldn't have seen Trump, since Obama's delay would avoid petty Donald from going nuts over a non white president roasting him. In a public event.
There's just so many specific things that went wrong that credibly wouldn't have followed a Gore victory.
As narrative and cinematic as the idea is, I don't actually think the mockery was core to the whole issue. He had run for president previously, and the only reason he got roasted to begin with was because he was performing public verbal defecation through his puckered asshole mouth with the whole "OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE" thing.
As an idiotic narcissist who saw his inner racism increasingly reflected in the open rhetoric of the conservative party, he was always going to keep trying. And it's to the GOP's shame (insofar as they're capable of such a thing) that they nominated him; and America's shame that we elected him twice.
But yes, a Gore presidency may have averted all of... this.