“Do I have this right? Is this just what he thinks is a clever way to encourage the wobbly GOP to stab us in the back and remove our President who has done nothing wrong?”
That’s my take on it - just another NeverTrumper trying to sway GOP Senators. The timing gives it away.
Note that he fails to consider another impeachment scenario, where the Republicans did just as he is (coyly) trying to propose here. That was 1974, and Nixon was driven out because the Republicans who could have protected him turned against him.
So what happened next: The Republicans got their asses whipped 3 months later in the Mid-Term election and then Gerald Ford (who, according to this claim, should have been unstoppable, and stayed in office until 1984) couldn’t even beat a peanut farmer in 1976 - and it nearly cost us the Cold War.
That is the HISTORY of what DID HAPPEN, it is not a ‘predication’ based on a couple of magazine articles, as this piece is.
Good analysis. What is always a factor is: Is it a Republican President or a Rat? With an R you get the ruin of the aftermath like Nixon with the D you end up it being a big win for the POTUS such is the advantage of having the entire MSM behind you. My first reflex was the author was a Never Trumper who thinks he is being clever. It’s cynical and it’s insulting.