I am a little older than you and remember it very well. This is exponentially worse than Watergate. In those days we had federal employees who resigned if they disagreed with a policy. And both parties worked together to get the truth. The Reps in Congress did not try to protect Nixon.
Were it not for Watergate, the present treasonous coup would not have developed.
When the offense gets under way publicly for real, there will be such tumult as to be unimaginable. We are looking at change of French Revolution proportions.
(Did you ever read a book from that era by Norman Mailer, "Armies of The Night"?)
Norman ..... one great craftsman/writer and one great book of that time (1968).