We might "not be playing this time", but they dont care. Nothing ever changes, no one in washington ever goes to jail for anything they're insulated. They use thier propaganda arm of the "news" to sway public opinion, Lindsay Graham will waddle out long enough to tell everyone that "sunlight is the best disinfectant" and that's the best we can ever hope for, it's been exposed, now it's time to move on because nothing ever happens, nothing ever changes.
When democrats are in charge the pivot to totalitarian government is put on steroids, when republicans are in charge they turn the heat down because it's easier to boil the frogs warming them up little by little, but the flow and the direction remains the same, loss of freedoms, more government control of every aspect of your life with an elite class making the rules who are also exempt from them.