At this point, I don't care about Trump's fate, he made his bed and he can lie in it, but on the impeachment thing, I'm rather glad it failed, but not for Trump's sake.
Impeachment is a double-edged sword politically speaking. The only time it went through and the people who wanted it got little political heat for it was with Richard Nixon, and only because the smoking gun on tape that left him no defense for his actions, and his other abuses of power pissed off both sides of the aisle to the point only an idiot wouldn't want to fry him at the stake.
Trump, on the other hand, even if it worked, it would result in political backlash for the same reasons as Andrew Johnson, where it looked like an exercise in political spite to some degree (more so, since Trump is on the way out, Johnson was still serving his term), and let's be honest, a successful impeachment would just rile up more crazy assholes to try something stupid in retaliation. While Johnson had a better argument he was being railroaded, impeachment hinges more, in the public eye, on the perception of what's happening over the reality, and one that went through would just have nuts doing terrorist madness as revenge in return.
As it is, Trump is up to his neck in legal crap even without impeachment and his chances of running for office again are practically nil, and that strikes me as the best one could possibly hope for without riling up lunatics further.
Impeachment is a double-edged sword politically speaking. The only time it went through and the people who wanted it got little political heat for it was with Richard Nixon, and only because the smoking gun on tape that left him no defense for his actions, and his other abuses of power pissed off both sides of the aisle to the point only an idiot wouldn't want to fry him at the stake.
Trump, on the other hand, even if it worked, it would result in political backlash for the same reasons as Andrew Johnson, where it looked like an exercise in political spite to some degree (more so, since Trump is on the way out, Johnson was still serving his term), and let's be honest, a successful impeachment would just rile up more crazy assholes to try something stupid in retaliation. While Johnson had a better argument he was being railroaded, impeachment hinges more, in the public eye, on the perception of what's happening over the reality, and one that went through would just have nuts doing terrorist madness as revenge in return.
As it is, Trump is up to his neck in legal crap even without impeachment and his chances of running for office again are practically nil, and that strikes me as the best one could possibly hope for without riling up lunatics further.