Watergate.
I wasn’t around then, but Nick tells me that this is how Watergate got going. Slowly at first, a lot of complaining that things were going too slow - then bam!
Subpoena after subpoena. That is where the similarities end. Subpoenas weren’t ignored back then. These days they’re used as scrap paper for grocery lists.
Nixon drank and prayed with Kissinger. Trump doesn’t drink and thinks he’s God.
Nixon resigned. Trump had to be voted out after two impeachments.
Back then the GOP were peopled with decent intelligent beings. Today’s GQP is peopled with non-sentient beings who hate everything except themselves (like a cat) and their bank accounts (cats don’t have those).
FYI - Sentience is the ability of a species to think intelligently. ... Creatures that completely lacked that ability are classified as non-sentient, while those that appear to have emerging sentience were classified as semi-sentient.
By this description, the GQP appears to be devolving.
But Watergate ended satisfactorily.
This particular shit show - unknown, but I don’t think it will be pleasant. And it does not augur well for the future.
Happy Thanksgiving from Tom and Nick.