Five months of stonewalling a subpoena might offer a clue.
There's getting to be a backlash among certain conservatives, mainly of the #NeverTrump variety, against the idea that there's really a serious matter to be uncovered in the case of the FISA wiretap application for Carter Page, and in the attempts to cover up the documents related to it.
The thinking goes like this: Paranoid Trump superfans see some sinister deep state conspiracy in everything! Missing text messages! Unreleased memos! These nutcases are so off the rails, they're convinced they're going to find something "worse than Watergate"! What fruitcakes.
I've been using the term "worse than Watergate" for months in reference to this, and apparently that's now being turned against me and people like me by those on the right who never liked Trump to begin with and want to remain acceptable in polite society.
Let's be clear about what "worse than Watergate" means and why it's been used by me and others: The Watergate scandal was about people associated with the Nixon re-election campaign breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and planting listening devices in the hope they could get some useful information to wield against George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign. The commission of a burglary against your presidential opponent so you could plant a listening device is obviously a crime and a massive scandal. The ensuing attempts to Nixon and others to cover it up only made the scandal worse.
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