This is going to be short, because it’s really, really simple.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about something that nobody had the right to ask about, and had zero impact on how he governed.
I was in London on vacation when one of the larger bombshells dropped, and the reaction outside the United States was that the Starr investigation was trivial and mean spirited. I saw headlines on newspapers on the street like “For a blowjob???” The consensus was that this was totally partisan harassment with no real-world impact. This is from people who didn’t have a dog in the fight.
Most people here saw Clinton as being bullied by an over-aggressive, hyper-partisan Congress. (We hadn’t seen how hyper-partisan things could get, yet.) Because he was the underdog, he got sympathy. His popularity rose.
The difference with Trump is we’ve got a bunch of criminal behavior to impeach on. CRIMINAL behavior. And everybody not in his small, but vocal, base knows it.
Trump has played the victim card to the max. There isn’t another level to take it to. He isn’t going to get any increased underdog sympathy.
What will happen is every nasty little fact about his mobster regime is going to see the light of day. And when, as everyone expects, the Republican Senate doesn’t convict him, every Democratic Senate candidate can hammer every Republican Senate candidate with the fact that the Republican thinks the president is above the law.
Impeach now.