Simple question: Is this crisis worse than Watergate?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Absolutely.

The Watergate break-in really was more or less a third rate burglary. It was the cover-up that brought down Nixon.

Here, what was actually done (Michael Flynn's contact with the Russians and various other things) is the actual crime. They are trying to cover it up, but not being at all successful, unlike the Nixon White House was able to do for some months back then.

I lived in the DC area at the time, and the Washington Post was, for a very long time, the only newspaper in the country paying attention. I also recall rather vividly in about the last ten days before Nixon's resignation, the extent to which the federal government simply slowed to a halt. I worked in the private sector myself, unconnected to the government, but it was pretty obvious.