Impeachment in an alternate universe

But now consider what is, for me, a confounding scenario:

A recording surfaces of a president, talking with a handful of old friends, one of whom asks if the job has changed any fundamental beliefs.

“No,” the president says. “I still believe that the white race is genetically superior to the black race. I still believe that the malevolent power of world Jewry is a threat to our way of life. I still believe that it is God’s will that men are to rule, and women are to serve. I have to enforce the laws as they are; but those beliefs are at the heart of who I am.”

Such noxious sentiments are not criminal. Nor do they violate the oath of office: Presidents do not swear allegiance to the idea of equality. (Indeed, Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson—almost surely among others—were ardent white supremacists.]

So would there be grounds for impeachment? There is a view, espoused by then-Rep. Gerald Ford when he was trying to impeach Justice Willam Douglas—that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate think it is.

But an article of impeachment against a bigoted president would have to charge something. What would it say?