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I’ve been noticing a certain pessimism around LGF lately. The attitude seems to be that Trump voters will never turn on him, and Republican legislators won’t either. Trump runs the executive branch and can spike investigations. In short we are dooooomed.

But be of good cheer! People can change their minds and when they do, congresspeople and senators do as well. Here is a brief timeline of Nixon’s downfall. It took two and a half years.

Note that Nixon won by a 23% margin (18 million votes) and took 520 electoral votes. At the time of his inauguration, his approval rating was nearly 70%.

But that didn’t last long. I won’t go over everything that happened, but here are a few especially cogent images for our purposes.

Also in October 1973: Protests!

Right about now is when two lines crossed: Nixon’s approval rating and the number of people who thought he should be removed from office.

It took until July, 1974 for the House to vote for impeachment articles.

Soon after that, Nixon resigned.

Now, I hear the objections from the pessimists. Democrats ran the house (yeah but that included dixiecrats - remember The Southern Strategy?), Nixon’s voters weren’t as crazed (oh, they were! They hated hippies and pot with all the devotion we see for social justice warriors and immigrants today), there were Republicans who had a conscience back then (they started to develop that conscience right about the time those two lines above crossed in 1973).

So I implore you to hang in there! We have a job to do - change public perception and thereby change politician views. Protest. Write letters. Talk to persuadable people. We can do this!