Do you think the 2000 election was the last normal one?

[Suburbia]

2000. Pre-9/11. Jobs, education, social security was the talk. Bush vs. Gore was not so acrimonious, for most of 2000, it was boring.

2004 on was a post-9/11 election, 2008 and 2012, demographic change election, and 2016 and 2020, white backlash politics and the rise of Trump, health pandemic.

Don't you think?

[darklordoftech]

I’d say 2012 and 2000 (until election night) were the last normal elections.

[TheReckoning]

Either all elections are “normal elections” or none of them are.

[Ferguson97]

2012 was about as normal as you can get.

[Oregon Eagle Politics]

Yes. 1984-2000 were all normal, 2004-2020 (with the exception of 2012) were all weird.

[RINO Tom]

This would be pretty funny to anyone who lived through it.  Even before the post-Election Night controversies, people were looking back on the 2000 election has significantly more culturally divisive and part of some "nasty new era" than the good old elections of the 1980s and 1990s.