Should Trump be impeached for inquiring if the D O J can prosecute his political enemies?

[Pope George Ringo II]

31. It's not about him expanding his base.

It's about motivating what he's still got. Impeachment will do that.

As an aside, you do realise you're not going to get competent politicians involved in pushing it because they know better than to become known as Trump's answer to Marcia Clark, right? Whoever the dumbest or least popular House Democrats are, they'd be the ones who got this job. That's going to make the inevitable failure even uglier. The circle-jerk shitshow of a failed impeachment just keeps getting worse the more I think about it.

Bottom line: Can you name a real benefit (or combination of benefits?) for a failed impeachment which would justify the rallying cry it would be for Trump's base? It's a feel-good for a portion of our own base, probably about offset by the fact that another portion of our base would face-palm. That's about the best I can come up with on the pro- side. On the con- side, I know why impeachment will fail, I know what that will cost us. Can you suggest even one thing which we would gain from a failed impeachment? Make an argument on why a failed impeachment is a good idea? At some point, politics has to be about winning elections and governing. I just don't see any connection between those two things and a failed impeachment. Please, give me one.