OK, Old Timers, I gotta say this:

[Caliman73]

70. One major difference is the media.

During Watergate there were 3 major television broadcasters and PBS, and newspapers like the Washington Post and the NY Times. The public got its information from sources that were basically covering the events with the same set of facts, and while the country has always been polarized, you still had to get your information from sources of information that were not totally slanted one way or the other. In this time period someone can consume media and never get ANY information about what is actually happening OR they get information that is so heavily spun, that they actually think that Trump is trying to uncover a vast child sex trafficking ring run by the "elites" and this is why he is being smeared. It was likely Watergate and the Nixon presidency that pushed conservatives to start their buy up of media in the late 70's. Nixon and his media consultant, a young Roger Ailes, had been toying with the idea of GOPTv to broadcast conservative only perspective though that would only come to fruition in the 90's with Fox News Channel.

I actually think that Nixon, and definitely Goldwater, were as rabid as Trumpers, they just didn't have an entire spectrum of media to secure their base and inoculate them from reality like they have today.

I can't say for sure, but I strongly believe that if Nixon had Fox and all the other media outlets that are around today, it would have been much more difficult to get him out of office.