Watergate: President's lackeys break into Democratic party office to gain an edge in an election. Wins election in a landslide. Bipartisan investigation ensues. President resigns.
Current situation, in all likelihood: Trump colludes with Russian Intelligence and officials via his lackeys to gain an edge in a Presidential election. Loses the popular vote but wins in the electoral college (with a timely thumb on the scale provided by James Comey). Bipartisan investigation has not yet ensued and may not at all.
The signs and symptoms of Trump's collusion with Russia were evident throughout Trump's campaign and the GOP continued to support him. Now, save for a few lone GOP voices, the party continues to obstruct an investigation into as pure, protracted and profound a potential case of treason as can be imagined: a foreign government gaining partial control over a President in exchange for aid in their election.
The reason for this is simple. The GOP's love of power has completely eclipsed any guiding principle, including loyalty to country. This reality was becoming evident during the Obama years with the GOP's willingness to put the international economy at risk through debt-ceiling hostage crises and invitations for foreign leaders to publicly rail against the President's foreign policy in our own Capitol. But these examples are trivial compared to the current situation.
We are facing a case of mass treason (at least accessory to it) on a party scale in exchange for power, with our intelligence agency (which is withholding intelligence from Trump because it is convinced that "Russia has ears in the Oval Office") slowly but surely seeking to dislodge the obstruction posed by the Congressional GOP (and potentially the FBI) towards revealing the truth on this matter.
But a goddamn ugly and sad truth is already out for all to see:
