Does impeachment matter? Clinton was impeached. So what? As you say: the conviction isn’t going to happen. So the impeachment (if it occurred at all) would just be pointless virtue signalling.
Does impeachment matter?
after re-election no.
before?
yup..
I can hear them now “Impeached Republican presidential candidate Trump says ‘we still need to get the wall built!’ democrats say no, you where impeached, you should step down”
The only difference would be that, currently, in the media and everywhere else, Clinton is referred to as former president Bill Clinton. Trump would be referred to as IMPEACHED (and possibly DISGRACED) former president Donald Trump.