I find it gross and pathetic.
Likewise, I find it juvenile and kind of pitiful that some people are intransigent in their religious pursuit of indictment.
SAD! even that it's even up for discussion to just let shit slide so you can maybe win an election.
"Let shit slide" is the indicative phrase, here. This is a blood feud. The goal here seems to be to make sure that officials suffer consequences for misdeeds in office. That is concomitant with the idealist's theory of governance but there's no absolutely no reference to the real, practical issues here in the protracted political war between Republicans and Democrats.
It shouldn't even be a partisan issue.
It's the head of state. Every action or inaction will have significant consequences. Let's not be naive.
Trump brazenly and repeatedly obstructed justice and every possible reason his lawyers could challenge any of the offensives have already been established by precedent and constitutional law that it wouldn't defend him. Mueller and his team have already done all the work for them.
He did, but
1) he didn't obstruct justice covering up a bigger, more substantial crime. There wasn't enough evidence of criminal conspiracy. You may think this is just some kind of semantic distinction because we live in a nation of laws and obstruction of justice is a crime just like any other but there is a significant, qualitative difference in the nature of abuses between (1) illegally wiretapping your political opponents, (2) flouting the explicit will of congress by covertly funneling arms to an embargoed state and then laundering that dirty money to fund a terrorist group in latin america, and (3) firing the FBI director because you have the maturity of a toddler and everything related to a specific investigation makes you feel insecure about your dumb fluke of an election win.
2) pursuing those charges puts Democrats at a serious electoral disadvantage.
He is the democratically elected head of state and hypothetically represents the popular will. Fuck with that office at your own risk. And if you do, you better be able to convince most people that he absolutely had to be removed.
Nerds are just gonna let it all slide because "well maybe we'll win this election if we don't do it" or "We're both Republicans, lol gonna own the libs". Why even pretend we have a real government if you're just going to let the president repeatedly break the law, done as often in private in via illegal channels as it was openly in public. He's ADMITTED to obstruction in public multiple times for fuck's sake
Because impeachment is a tool, not an end by itself, unless you're the kind of person who hate watches the news. The only difference between Trump being indicted (and then pardoned) and Trump losing the election is that in the former case you get to vindicated by the history books and in the latter, the bad man got away with it. On the other hand, the tangible differences between losing 2020 and winning 2020 are really quite significant. It's your choice which one you want to prioritize.