After SCOTUS illegally stopped a state-mandated vote recount and installed GW Bush as president,
the national media's response was ...
"Let's just move on."

for the good of the country or similar response.

Backing down to bullies just makes them worse.

Up until then the courts always decided that the "will of the voter" took precedence over all other considerations.

Republicans want to protect elections from voters instead of for voters.

It was not followed. In addition, 10,000 absentee ballots that the counting machines could not read that were located in the most heavily republican voting counties were hand duplicated and counted as Florida election law in 2000 allowed. These ballots favored Bush by more than 2 to 1. This is what made it possible for Bush to steal the election. The existence of these hand duplicated GOP absentee ballot was documented by a 5/7/01 Orlando Sentinel article,
Mangled ballots resurrected".

It the statewide recount had proceeded Al Gore would have won, Gore won the 2000 election and was cheated.

Has that ever been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt?

There were a number of counties with scan ballots where voters both voted for Al Gore and then wrote Al Gore's name in. These votes were rejected but should have been counted for Gore. Gore would have won with these votes.

I am active on voter protection issues and I have posted articles on the recount. I could not find my posts but I did find this from the editors of DU from 2001
https://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/11/p/12_gorewon.html

which required that all votes where the intent of the voter is clear be counted. The media invented vote counting scenarios that did not exist in Florida election law in order to not count all of the uncounted votes and invent a Bush "win" that does not in fact exist. It's important to remember that the uncounted Florida votes are located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida. There's no way that Bush got more votes in Florida.

Al Gore won the 2000 election

A separate vote count done by impartial volunteers of all of the uncounted votes proved it. It's also important to remember that most of the uncounted votes are located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida.

I won't ever forget.

..sorta' like a 50 car Freight-Train bearing down on me at a crossing....while my car stalled.

It made possible the nightmare our country is currently going through. There would be no Trump now without Bush/Florida 2000.

Bob Graham was governor at the time. A sense of deep foreboding came over me. And the political, environmental, and military atrocities that have followed stemmed from that day.

But, we are always late.

As someone who spent 15 years working on election campaigns in Florida, under the laws that were on the books in 2000, there are some points made in this podcast that I need to correct Missing from this podcast is the fact that during a prime time address during the Florida election dispute, Al Gore offered to drop all legal proceedings if Bush would agree to the statewide count of the uncounted Florida votes. Bush refused.

I also find it disappointing that the podcaster attacked Al Gore for following what Florida election law actually was in 2000. The Gore campaign targeted the counties where most of the uncounted votes were actually located. They turned out to be the largest and most heavily democratic counties in Florida. In 2000, Florida election law did not allow for a statewide vote count because the Florida legislature believed that the votes should be counted in the counties where the votes were actually cast. The Florida legislature then gave the counties the authority to handle election disputes. These were 2 of the reforms passed in the aftermath of the 1876 Presidential election that Florida was also at the center of. In 1876. In 1876, the GOP controlled Florida statewide canvassing board threw out the votes of 1,800 democrats which was more than enough votes to change the outcome of that election in favor of the republican Presidential candidate Rutherford Hayes. To prevent this throwing out of votes from happening again, the Florida legislature passed a reform that required the counting of all votes where the intent of the voter was clear. This is a clear standard that's the voting counting standard in most states including Texas. This reform clearly failed in 2000 thanks to Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and the GOP controlled SCOTUS.
The GOP controlled SCOTUS's ruling was unconstitutional because the constitution gives the states the authority to conduct elections and it gives the U.S. House of Representatives the authority to settle disputed elections not 5 unelected, highly partisan SCOTUS judges. It also violated the 14th amendment because GOP ballots that the counting machines could not read got counted while Dem ballots that the counting machines couldn't read were not counted. The podcast also doesn't note the fact that not 1 dem U.S. Senator would co-sponsor the Congressional Black Caucus's challenge to the fraudulent Florida 2000 vote count.
Furthermore, Jeb's interference started will before election day by making numerous public threats that he would carry Florida for his brother in addition to the felon purge. Jeb also singlehandedly changed Florida absentee ballot law without a vote of the Florida legislature in order to increase GOP turnout. During the election dispute, Jeb threated to take away state business from Florida law firms who took Al Gore's case.
In conclusion, I really take issue with the podcaster for blaming Al Gore for the Bush brothers all-out assault on American democracy in Florida. Our country will never be the same because of it.

Now 3 of the R lawyers involved in that case have lifetime appointments on SCOTUS.

the future... though they would happily do it again for a R..

remember the "Brooks Brothers Riot"?

and the nation (or at least the court and Gore) backed down.

The Brooks Brothers riot was based on a total lie. The rioters were GOP operatives, not local Miami residents. Al Gore did all he could short of a civil war to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. The Rehnquist 5 were determined to thwart the will of the people and install Bush. Senate dems should've picked up on the Congressional Black Caucus's challenge to the fraudulent Florida vote count by refusing to certify the election until all of the uncounted Florida votes were counted which is what Florida election law in 2000 required.

That was a coup, my friends.

I didn't think of that myself, but somebody said it was and I totally agree.

I'll believe until my dying day that Gore won, and that Donnie DIDN'T win in 2016 nor in 2024.