The Deep State GOPe wants Trump to move towards the Democracks so they can position themselves as more “conservative” than Trump for 2018/2020.
Watch.
The DIRCs (moderate dems or democrats in republican clothing) are willing to cede congress to the liberal wing of the democrat party in the next election. The DIRCs want Trump gone but realize that if they impeach him they will NEVER be able to campaign as some sort of alternative party ever again.
Thus, they purposefully failed to defend attacks on Trump re. Russia, allowed Comey to lie in order to gain appointment of a special counsel, allowed the deep state to plot, slow walked the president’s nominees and failed to advance Trump’s agenda (even in places where it corresponded with their own). They did this all because they are willing to let the liberal wing of their party come into power after 2018 to do the dirty work of impeaching Trump.
It’s their wing of the party and no upstart is going to take it over or expose it for what it truly is (a moderate wing of a uniparty). If they can’t control it, then they are more than happy to burn it to the ground. Oh, the country can go straight to hell in the process. Not like they cared anyway.