If anyone else were president, you might have a point. But, to not impeach and remove this president from office for those crimes will only enable him to do more of the same, and far worse, which, in the process of doing so, will destroy the presidency, and our standing in the world --- we'll be just another third rate Machiavellian empire, like Russia.
That is the fundamental error the right is making by acquitting Trump.
It's not that we can, or cannot, beat Trump in the election, that isn't what this is about.
What then, is this about?
It's about the fact that man who is a malignant narcissist/pathological lying sociopath like Trump should NEVER be allowed to be president of the united states, PERIOD.
The EC was originally designed to prevent such a man from being the nominee. Because of the emasculation of the EC, dems created "superdelegates", so that someone like Trump could never hijack the party. Unfortunately, the RNC lacked the wisdom to reject Trump from the party, and now the world is suffering because of their myopia, and now we have mob rule. Senators, during this trial, will not be voting their conscience or what is good for the US, they are voting to keep Trump from berating them on twitter, and primarying them in the next election.
Yes, mob rule. Trump gets his power by pandering to a demographic which, if his senators and congresspersons get out of line, he primaries them and thus whips his underlings into submission. Given that senate repubs are spineless, he is having a field day over them.
That is the quintessence of mob rule.