Fred Kaplan watched the hearings and, like me, couldn't help but compare them to the Watergate proceedings.
One key difference for me is that I think a lot of people watched the Watergate hearings because they wanted the answer to the question, "Is our President a crook?" I tend to think most people who are capable of having a firm opinion about Donald Trump on that question have already answered it and a pretty large percentage of them are prepared to live forever with that answer. In some cases, it's "Yeah, he's a crook and I'm fine with that."
One of my closest friends before Watergate got increasingly less close as the scandal traipsed onward. He had sided with Nixon and was never going to say, "I was wrong about the man." I was reminded of that intransigence when I heard Trump brag about how he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters.
But my friend was capable of deciding eventually that Nixon was damaged goods; that he could no longer govern effectively and would just bring down his party and lead to increasing Democratic rule so he had to go. This friend told me that in the next presidential election, he did not vote for Gerald Ford. He wrote in "Richard Nixon" as a kind of self-satisfying protest vote. He's probably still writing him in.