Questions that need to be considered

Dems are agonizing over whether impeaching the president might risk losing the 2020 elections. It could motivate Trump supporters. And the Senate is unlikely to convict even if the House impeaches. So many say "let's not proceed with impeachment and just focus on the 2020 election. Why are our talking heads not asking: But if Trump is unfit (he is) and dangerous (he is) and unprincipled (he is) and already in violation of his oath of office (he is) and undermines norms that our nation has observed (he does), and may very well be under the thumb of our arch-adversary, how can we risk 21 more months with Trump as our president? That's a very long time, and who can say what kind of damage could be done, what sort of national or international challenge that might arise - with a chief executive who has no principles except his own enrichment and appetites. Act Now.

Impeachment

Impeachment should apply to “the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust”. High crimes and misdemeanors “are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself” Hamilton, Federalist #65 -- "Impeachment should be “a remedy for usurpation or abuse of power or serious breach of trust” such as 'offenses against the government, and especially abuses of constitutional duties'. The emphasis 'has been on the significant effects of the conduct – undermining the integrity of the office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the governmental process, adverse impact on the system of government' - Judiciary Committee Report on Impeachment, 1974 -- "These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly in the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?” Hamilton, Federalist #68 -- Aren't we far past the time that our Congressmen who took the oath to the Constitution should act??