When Democrats tried to deligetimize an election

Tim Carney:

Donald Trump's repeated and unfounded claims that the election will be rigged against him has a lot of commentators worried. "Trump is nonchalantly taking a sledgehammer to the bedrock of the American government," Dara Lind at Vox.com writes. This may "undermine democracy," opines Jonathan Chait. There are dozens of articles like this.

Lind, Chait, and the scores of like-minded journalists are correct to chastize Trump for his rhetoric, but fairness requires us to recall that it's not unprecedented in recent American history.

"Bush v. Gore did steal the election," Chait wrote in 2012, calling it a coup. Liberal James Fallows wrote a piece headlined "5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup," with the agreement of liberal scribe Michael Tomasky. This was all part of a campaign of intimidation, quarterbacked from the liberal activists closest to Hillary Clinton, to threaten the Supreme Court with charges of illegitimacy if they didn't uphold Obamacare's individual mandate.

Bush v. Gore was a fitting comparison for Fallows to make because around that time, Democratic lawmakers and liberal leading lights were explicitly trying to undermine the presidency by calling the election results illegitimate, and President Bush illegitimate.

I attended a Congressional Black Caucus hearing in the weeks after the election when one CBC member called the 2000 election a "coup d'etat." This was a member of Congress talking about the president. Jesse Jackson, less than a year after receiving the Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton, consistently accused Bush of a coup. Four years later, Democrats held a charade on the floor objecting to Ohio's electoral votes. Undermining President Bush's legitimacy was politically valuable to them.

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, continues to this day to say that the Supreme Court—not the voters or the electoral college—determined the 2000 election. That's undermining democracy by spreading misinformation.
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Yeah, Democrats are hypocrites.  They also cheat but this election is not looking close enough for them to win just by cheating.  What Democrats should really be concerned about is that the media attention on whether Trump copped a feel of some ladies in the past instead of the issues in the campaign is going to rob Clinton of any mandate.