Threats, bribes, destruction of evidence, firings.  These are the go-to tools that corrupt officials have used since Assyrian times to bolt a lid on inconvenient investigations.  The timing and rationale for this firing are ... well ... interesting.  

It doesn't escape me that the specific misdeeds of Watergate and Drumpfster Fire are markedly different -- no comparison.  But the similarity is that what America wouldn't tolerate in Watergate was the evasion and obstruction of justice -- Nixon's evident disdain for the rule of law.  

That's the same kind of behavior we're seeing now.  Perhaps Drumpf doesn't remember how Nixon's public support crumbled suddenly, in just a few short weeks, when Nixon set himself against the independent Watergate investigators.  But I sure do.