Great point, anon. The scale of criminality is so much bigger than we tend to think about as we watch the day-to-day of the DOJ and congressional committee revelations trickling out.
The overall size of the operation is easy to lose sight of. All the various troops are moving into position in ways we likely haven't considered yet.
So yeah, it's all going to take some time.
Let's not forget the issues of the moment re: potential indictments and arrests only scratch the surface.
These are "Stage 1": Spying on Trump, hiding the spying, issuing phony court documents, perjury, misuse of federal funds, misuse of agency personnel: these are likely to be the main topics du jour for many months to come. New, related matters at a similar level of illegality will pop up during 2018 as well–matters like Chelsea using the "Diane Reynolds" email account and federal employees knowingly going along with it, or federal employees using gmail for agency business. That's illegal and worthy of jail time most likely. But these only scratch the surface.
The real issues to investigate, to get to the true crimes and put a head wound on the cabal, are the crimes BEHIND these crimes.
"Stage 2" would include: Uranium One. Project Cassandra. Many instances of U.S. public officials in all branches (going back to late 1980s) enriching themselves from their offices. Trillions of dollars stolen, The many suspicious deaths. JFK. 9-11. Pedophilia, and the subsequent cover ups and obstruction of justice. And beyond these, even darker shit.
There is probably no way we see resolution of much of Stage 1 crimes during 2018, since it's almost June. Stage 1 prosecutions will be ongoing through the entire winter.
And that will only be the beginning of the beginning.