Most of you reading this probably are too young to directly remember Nixon's Watergate scandal. Sometimes in our lives we live through events and don't realize that they are historic until many years or even decades later. Watergate was not one of those. We knew at the time that it was crucially important history.

Trump's federal indictment falls into the same category. You are watching enormously crucial history unfold in real time before you, that will affect this country and the world for many decades (at least) to come.

Please pay attention.

@lauren My parents used to tell stories about how 3 y/o me would run around with V fingers in the air, babbling "Not a crook! Not a crook!" They voted for Carter because they were disgusted with Watergate, but then voted for Anderson in 1980. By 1983, they'd fallen in with the far-right/sovcit fringe, via some anti-IRS seminars recommended by a friend. It went downhill from there. Dad died (unvaxed COVID) in 2021. Mom is still volunteering with the local GOP. Sigh...