You ae right, but the caveat is: how things stand now. Once the House Impeachment proceedings get in full throat with the extreme media amplifiers, they could and will try to create a situation where those Senators have little choice but to vote against DJT - perhaps a rock and a hard place situation sort of choice. Opportunities for “Profiles in Courage” abound.
(you guys are saying about the same thing, so I’ll answer both at once)
First off, Trump will be toast if he double-crosses his base, such as selling out on Amnesty. He’s come close in the past, during the DACA crap, and the Dems will be dangling things at him this term, for sure. If he gets a bad deal, in OUR opinion, not his opinion, and agrees to it, then we’re through with him...at that point, Mueller could produce an unpaid parking ticket at get his 20 Republican votes to remove.
So Trump has to stay with us...and if he does stay with us, it will be virtually impossible for Mueller to produce anything that we’ll believe - short of audio/video evidence that hasn’t been doctored, clearly showing collusion - and I really doubt there is any evidence, since there hasn’t been any crime. Anything else, like Obstruction, Witness Tampering, etc., Mueller can suck on those as far as his base is concerned...and any Republican who turns against Trump on that crap will never see another term in DC.
So the BOTTOM LINE, as I see it, is that if Congress tries to Impeach and Remove Trump, one of three outcomes will happen:
1) They will produce hard evidence of real crimes and even his supporters will agree he’s a criminal and want him out.
2) They will produce crappy evidence of fake crimes, but Trump will still be with us, so the Senate Republicans will tell Mueller to shove it.
3) Trump will turn against his base on immigration, or something else really important (like gun control), and Mueller will be able to take him out on the flimsiest of evidence, and we’ll also be happy to see him gone.
I think #2 is going to happen, so Trump is safe, and we’ll be happy.
However, if #1 or #3 does happen, we would have already turned against Trump, so we’ll also be glad to see him go.
So whatever outcome occurs, it will still be what we want, given where things stand at the time. To put it another way, if 90% of Republican voters still support Trump, very, very, few Republican Senators will vote to remove him.
I think a lot of Americans would consider that to be a coup.