Unit2Sucks said:
And just to be clear, are you saying that the fact that the president induced a "change in mental well-being in a multitude of Trump opponents that's out of the range of normal" to be a defense of the president?
To build on that question, let's just say that everything BearlyAmazing has put forward is exactly literally true. That all the accomplishments he has listed are accurate and good, and all the dislike of the president is arbitrary, unfounded, and what could only be called a mental health catastrophe. Wouldn't that alone be a really good reason for him to step down as president?
I can be the best husband in the world--or at least make a list of all the great accomplishments and show them to my wife, but if she is miserable it doesn't matter.
If there is an executive driving profit at a company but whose management style and conduct created toxic culture and started effecting employee morale and retention and recruitment, he would be asked to leave.
In a Cal context, if we had a coach who kept winning and had all these great accomplishments but he was making the players miserable and had created a team that broke with the values of the cal community, might we want him gone?
Leadership is not serving just those who elected you or meeting benchmarks with no accountability to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of a majority (or substantial minority) of Americans.
He shows zero leadership in his inability to recognize the effects he has had on country and the people and our sense of self as a nation of high moral standing in the world. He has driven down how we as Americans see ourselves and the office of president--and how the world sees us.
You might not care, but the fact that 50% of Americans do means he is not doing his job. He is failing. Any self-respecting person or leader would know this and do something about it (like maybe instead of calling fellow Americans names).
I completely disagree with BearlyAmazing's analysis of impeachment, Trump's criminality, the left, and Trump's accomplishments, but I think just on the basis of failing the majority of Americans and creating unrest and division, he should resign. But he will never do what is best for country--and that is the inexcusable recurring failing of this administration.