In other words, the country will likely get more politically correct even under a Bush presidency. He will compromise, just as his father did. The myriad assaults on our Constitutional freedoms, and on the Constitution itself, will continue. Fighting crime is always a good one. The public, after all, fears crime.
Scare tactics are effective.
It should be possible, to replace one party with the other party which will pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policy. So, no, Election 2000 wasn't the Crisis. But Election 2000 could well have set the stage for it. The Washington Empire will have no doubt that it has a problem on its hands, one that challenges its legitimacy in a way that a close election cannot do. I do not know, of course, that a rise of secession movements in various parts of the country will have something to do with it, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.