Arguably, if Clinton didn’t spend so much time being impeached, then there would have been a President Gore. Non-impeachment also risks the future you don’t want to see happen.
If Trump was in the middle of impeachment proceedings right now, it might energize some of his base, but it would also make him look like vulnerable in the way that it re-wrote Clinton.
Right now Trump looks like a mafia boss, but one that’s ordering people, not one that’s beholden to the Constitution and Congress in any big way.
