The main difference is the first time around it was a cute phrase coined by the left (walter chronkite?) to describe Nixon and make his actions seem beyond the pale. This time around, it’s true. The presidency now resembles the lungs of a two pack per day smoking chimney sweep working at a radiation lab.
I get your point, and it’s true. It wasn’t Wally though. Nixon brought it all on himself by at one point saying, “I am not a crook.”
LOL, what a true giver the guy was. LOL