All these resignations are beginning to look like a replay of the Saturday Night Massacre, except

[mahatmakanejeeves]

this is much, much bigger.

For the young'uns:

Saturday Night Massacre

The Saturday Night Massacre was the term used by political commentators to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon's dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and as a result the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.

[pnwmom]

1. But the Dems were in charge then and now the Rethugs control Congress.

So the chances of impeachment are much smaller.

[C_U_L8R]

2. We need to protect the whistleblowers

Someone somewhere has the goods on Trump and his stooges.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I remember that was the event that turned things around

It made a lot of thinking voters grasp the importance of containing Presidential power, and gave Nixon a definite black eye.

Suddenly the idea of a Constitutional crisis became real. What does a President do when his cabinet refuses to carry out possibly illegal orders?
Nixon had, by that time, isolated himself, and had only Kissinger whispering into his drunken ear.

Many of us here today were glued to the tv news and read the news[papers avidly as Watergate unfolded.
Later, the books and so much more info came out.

dunno about my fellow boomers here, but I have never been able to distance myself from that era (1968-1975)

there was so much going on and such rapid change.

and now, the pendulum swings again...