Many of US aren’t paying attention to the media. But the mushy middle that actually decides elections DO. We tried to impeach Clinton, not only did we fail to get conviction it played poorly enough with the middle that the Dems actually managed to be the first party of the sitting president to gain seat in the second midterm in 100 years. Which put us on a path to have no useful majority when Bush won the presidency. An impeachment, especially an impeachment you already KNOW is going to fail (there’s simply no path to 67 senate votes) is a waste of time and energy that poisons the party in the eyes of the middle and give fuel to the other side. The federal government is a numbers game, a smart party works the numbers.