David Brooks: Impeachment would be a mistake

They — I do agree Trump did something impeachable, but this is a political process, not a legal process. There’s no obligation to prosecute.

And, to me, it’s a mistake for a couple reasons. If your object is to get Donald Trump out of the White House, impeachment doesn’t get you there, because the chance that you will get 20 senators, 20 Republican senators, to vote to vote Donald Trump out of office seems to me so remote, it’s minuscule.

So the likely outcome of this is that Donald Trump will say, see, I was acquitted in the Senate. I’m vindicated. I beat these people.

And so he will get a little victory. And then both parties will go into revolt. And so that’s the way it likely looks to end up.