Ah, now to take a big sip of water and look at what happened as a consequence of avoiding a constitutional crisis in 2000 https://twitter.com/ShalomLipner/status/1324397384294608897

of course, it's silly to even say that the crisis was avoided. It was instead crystallized into law, and three of the lawyers that argued against counting every vote are now installed as justices on the Supreme Court. A refusal to fight it all out in 2000 invariably led to now.

If there's anything history remembers about the Bush administration, it's a steadfast commitment to protecting constitutional rights and the balance of powers! Definitely not responsible for what are now decades-long abuses of war powers and unconstitutional detentions.

In turn, without the GOP knowing it can play hardball and the opposition will meekly accept in the name of social peace, we don't likely get the same success of McConnell obstructionism. Without the endless war nationalism of the Forever War, we likely don't get Trump.

In conclusion, Lieberman's desire to lean on norms to force concessions from the president, however valid, is predicated entirely on a misunderstanding of history, his own role in it, and a failure to see politics as anything other than polite disagreement among elites.