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"The old saying is that if you strike at a king, be sure to kill him. In this case, the regime is striking not a king but at the very idea that an elected official can challenge the establishment. This risks revealing just how weak the country’s ruling class really is: if 40 percent of the country remains with Trump through the ordeal of impeachment, that will show that 40 percent is anti-regime — revolutions are made with less. And that 40 percent would be a floor, not a ceiling; a starting point for a future anti-regime movement."

In bold is they key sentence, IMHO. The author touches on it-the ancien regime as he puts it is actually striking at the people, including those who, for whatever reason, don't recognize it.

What the author also misses, which I think has roots going back to GHW Bush, is a growing realization that those institutions that were intended to/claimed to serve the people of the United States are there to protect the institutions (and those connected to those institutions if not actually part of them) themselves at the expense of the people of the United States.

That's how revolutions get started, for I'll or for better.