A higher percentage of people support impeaching Trump now than the percentage of adults who supported impeaching Nixon at the beginning of the Watergate hearings in 1973.
By June of that year, as the televised hearings had just kicked off, public support for Nixon's impeachment was at just 19%, according to Gallup polling data
obtained by the Washington Post.
You can't compare Nixon supporters to Trump supporters.
Ignoring how half the country feels is what got us Trump in the first place.
The polls compare all people.
Nixon was the 1970's. Society isn't quite the same anymore and won't react the same way.
Remember, the Watergate break-in was an actual crime. Trump is accused of obstructing an investigation into a 'crime' he didn't commit in the first place (collusion, which isn't a crime).
Nixon absolutely did try to fire the investigator - repeatedly - in order to cover up an actual crime committed. We can't compare that to Trump firing Comey.
What will definitely happen is even deeper divisions in the nation as a whole and probably too within both parties. I can't see how that's a good thing.
Firing Comey is the least of all this.
Trump can be guilty of obstruction even if there was no underlying crime. Trump pressured witnesses to be uncooperative with investigation. He asked senior official to lie or mislead public. And tried to fire special council.
if Trump were running for
any other office in the entire country, he would have already been charged with a serious federal crime. But because that office was the Presidency and he "won", he is now immune to any and all laws because of his position, which he has because of illegal foreign interference that he welcomed with open arms.