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In reply to the discussion: Can the DU Wet Blanket Brigade give it a brief respite for now? [View all]Warpy
(111,494 posts)and that may very well be the case and that's really OK. Very few people out in TV land have read about it on DU.
I lived through Watergate.. I was in a city with left wing tabloid newspapers so when the Watergate hearings started, I knew there would be little I hadn't already read about and there wasn't. That would have to wait decades until Nixon's tapes came out.
However, what those hearings did was pull Nixon's poll numbers (which were higher than TFG's) down to 24% by the time he called it quits to preserve his pension.
So while these hearings are not likely to produce brass bands and fireworks for regular readers of DU, they will produce results for the people who are not. We're not the target audience. The people who might not have kept up are.