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Thought exercise - burden now on GOP to make the case for why Trump, not Pence. Removing Trump doesn't overturn an election, GOP still in charge. Removal of a President is a Constitutional act, like an election; so removing a corrupt President is expected, not extraordinary.
2/My point - the case for removing Trump is very strong (corruption, lying, refusal to listen to intel community, craziness/unpredictability, legal challenges, lack of respect for dem norms) and the case for keeping him is very weak or even non-existent.
3/Our President is not a king. Trump has no right to hold the office. Our Founding Fathers expected the President to be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. Debasement of the office - and more broadly democracy - was a "high crime" and clear grounds for removal.
4/Trump would have been removed from the chief executive position of literally every other institution in the Western world for his behavior these past 2 years. How can the standard for the most powerful office in the world be lower than all these other institutions? It can't.
5/To sum up - the intellectual and Constitutional case for removing for Trump is very strong, perhaps overwhelming. Question now is politics.
6/Oh and if you believed lying about an affair with an intern required impeachment what about lying about an affair with Vladimir Putin?
