I disagree with the premise that people won’t understand this issue. People are not stupid. Most people have email in the work place where there are rules about what you can do. If you do not follow these rules, you could be subject to disciplinary action or be fired.
The sheeple could easily understand it if the facts were presented and the news cycle were not so fragmented and episodic.
The reason other things have been escalated such as Watergate and Iran Contra, is that the media kept hammering at them. Not so this. The sheeple have the the attention span of a ferret.