The Cons and Pros of Impeaching trump 2019

As the scandal over trump's efforts to extort Ukraine into pushing a false narrative about Joe Biden's son intensified this weekend, the Democratic majority leadership in the US House - where impeachment deliberations into trump's unethical and likely illegal acts would happen - is pretty much just sitting on their hands unwilling to confront a corrupt and bullying President Loser of the Popular Vote.

So how the hell did we end up in this state of affairs?

Let's open up with the Cons: the arguments why the Democrats in Congress would avoid pursuing any impeachment inquiry.

• The most obvious and simple fact that even if the House votes to impeach trump on ANY number of scandals - the obstruction documented by Mueller, the ongoing Emoluments violations, corrupt practices involving various federal agencies, trump's mishandling of foreign matters, ongoing stonewalling of various committees, now THIS crap with the whistleblower revealing possible extortion and electoral fraud (again) - any impeachment effort will die in the Senate. The Republican majority controlling that wing of Congress won't even think of getting two-thirds votes to actually remove trump. Doing so would upset their own rabid voting base for whom trump will never do anything wrong. Why waste the effort when it amounts to nil?
• The possibility that if the Democrats in the House vote to impeach, and the Republicans in the Senate sweeps every impeachment under the rug, trump will use that Republican denial to claim vindication, that he defeated the cowardly and foolish Democratic Party single-handed, that he was "innocent all along" and that his haters are "lying stupid libruls". Even though none of that will be true - that if this were a court of law and not a partisan-held branch of government, trump would be facing jail time for his crimes - there's every likelihood the media will play to that narrative, and it will confuse the still-undecided voters and/or discourage the moderate/liberal voters from voting at all. 

And here's the arguments in the Pro column: why Democrats need to take action as quick as possible.

• Refusing to pursue trump on impeachment charges will only embolden trump to commit even more violations of the law, and more than likely sabotage fair election efforts so he can cheat again.
• Even if the Republicans in the Senate are likely to refuse to vote against trump during the impeachment process, by forcing that vote the Democrats are sticking this onto Republicans who will have to OWN that vote forever. The impeachment process will expose as a matter of record every sin trump has committed, and the Republicans will have to defend why they allow those sins to go unpunished. They may be shameless but any of them from battleground states where trump is unpopular will have to defend themselves from angry voters.
• trump is a fraud, a con artist. he's the Shitgibbon of the Universe, willing to break any rule and ignore any norm in his quest for power and his appetite for greed. He has to get throat-punched at every opportunity because COMMON HUMAN DECENCY DEMANDS IT.
• trump is a punk. And punks step up so they can get slapped down.

I hope this clarifies things for you, Democrats.

DO YOUR DAMN JOB, PELOSI.