You know, from this distance, “Senator Al Gore, prominent ‘Atari Democrat’ who in the 1980s saw educated, high-tech industries as America and the Democrats’ replacement for industrial manufacturing, was instrumental to supporting the infrastructure that became the internet” sounds unremarkably reasonable

No, it’s the soundtrack to Love Story

(Okay so a minor theme of 2000 was that Al Gore was partially the inspiration for the movie’s male lead. This became part of a storyline that he was a braggart who claimed credit for other people’s work - like inventing the Internet - that was honestly whipped up from nothing. It was stupid, but the late 90s were a stupid time in American politics.)