The partisanship and the division are so great...

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Two things...

I don't for a minute believe that we are more divided than around Nixon's time. We'd been through COINTELPRO and other J. Edgar horrors when the FBI was a criminal enterprise. We'd been through the Army-McCarthy hearings, King's marches and assassination, Viet Nam, Woodstock, Russian missiles in Cuba, and godknowswhatelse. Was a time when Father Coughlin and Walter Winchell had much more effect than Sean Hannity does now. (At least there was Cronkite, who would now be lost in the noise)

Things are actually much quieter now, with the real difference being cable news and Facebook amplifying what differences we have. No draft riots or setting dogs on civil rights marchers these days, so all sides have to find outrage somewhere.

The other thing is that slowly but surely the House Dems are digging into Trump, it's just not that easy when the White House is illegally stonewalling them at every turn. Trump demanding they all shut up and defy subpoenas can't last, but until there's a breakthrough, they are stuck with Dean as their "celebrity witness". It's not like they can send the capitol police to pull unwilling witnesses in.

We survived the '60s (both 1860s and 1960s) and Reagan. We'll survive this.