Donald Trump’s failure to commit to accepting the election results has re-ignited a partisan debate over the aftermath of the contested 2000 presidential election. Liberals are trying to rewrite history, and act as if Al Gore and his fellow Democrats behaved graciously, never questioning the legitimacy of the election or the system. But I think my fellow conservatives should also acknowledge that what happened in 2000 is not equivalent to what Trump is doing now, and that what Trump is doing is worse.

Back in 2000, Election Day was on Nov. 7, and it wasn’t until Dec. 13 that Gore, after more than a month of lawsuits culminating in a Supreme Court decision, acknowledged that George W. Bush would be the next president.