I think there's a bit of a misperception about this. Let's see...
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This ain't the 1970s, folks. GOP voters care more about beating Democrats than having a functional country.
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1. *Most* GOP politicians stuck with Nixon well into 1974 - a year + after plenty of evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
2. Quite a few of those GOP politicians were real die-hards, echoing whatever the WH line was.
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3. Public support for Nixon? Don't have numbers handy, but Nixon bottomed out at around 25% approval.
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Republican voters today are 'captured' by GOP media (partly set up post-Watergate by Ailes et al) so there are some real differences here.
Republican voters are almost completely shut-off from any supply of information that would cause them to not be completely loyal to Trump.
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No tapes, no resignation. I assume that any evidence against Trump & co. is far less direct.
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