Subject: Re: Institutionalized corruption
The calculation may increasingly be made by Republicans that there is political advantage in voting for impeachment, and that Donald Trump is toothless.

It will never be in the political best interests of a party for them to support the impeachment and conviction of their own President. They then just lose everyone. Their own partisans will view it as a betrayal, while independents will view it as a confession of guilt.

You're not getting seventeen GOP Senators to vote for conviction.