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In case you're wondering how Trump's loyalists compare to Nixon's loyalists during Watergate, check out this Washington Post column by Marquis Childs. 
This piece ran in March 1973, about six weeks before the famous Senate Select Committee hearings laid bare all the details of Nixon's wrongdoing.
In it, Childs relates some of the complaints he'd gotten from Nixon loyalists -- such as this one:
In it, Childs relates some of the complaints he'd gotten from Nixon loyalists -- such as this one:
One correspondent engages in the timeless technique of "whataboutism," complaining that the previous Democratic administrations were just as bad as the current Republican one.
Another writer goes further, arguing that the congressional inquiries into the president's misconduct weren't part of their constitutional duties but were instead -- much as @newtgingrich said today -- a "political coup d'etat."
Another reader took that even further, warning that the result of any effort to hold the president accountable would be "chaos."
Some Nixon loyalists held onto these views until the bitter end -- see this thread I did last night -- but ultimately their claims were disproven and their arguments dispelled through the careful presentation of the evidence in congressional hearings.
