Nixon was a Republican. The shadow government is not.
He taped himself too. No doubt it’s an unwritten rule in Washington followed by both parties never to follow his lead.
And this isn’t about breaking into the opponent’s political headquarters, but national security.
Her flagrant law-breaking and above-the-rules self ran a government agency with many career employees, instead of mostly political hacks as she was used to, and that was involved with national security.
“We were dead broke when we left the White House” might be the kind of pulling the wool over the public’s eyes that the media will try to ignore and spin away, but wiped the server “with a cloth?” is another matter. It’s not “what DIFFERENCE at this point DOES IT MAKE?!”
From what I’ve seen overall between the liberal media and the liberal base, this is considered potentially serious. It was the very reason why many Dems tried “drafing” Biden and they even to float the idea of him getting into the race.