Still, in 1973 and 1974, it took the decision to name a fresh Watergate independent prosecutor, fiercely independent members of Nixon's own party like Senators Howard Baker and Lowell Weicker, and an independent judiciary that voted unanimously for the president to release his Oval Office tapes before America found out what that president knew and when he knew it. As of right now, none of these things are teed up in Donald Trump's America. And that should worry all of us.