In other words, his departure (whenever and however it occurs) will not solve the country’s problems, but he has made himself enough of a distraction as to make it nearly impossible to address those problems with him there childishly demanding attention at every moment. But he did attain that office by exploiting and exacerbating the polemics, and from his campaign to the present day has seen it in his continued interest to stoke fears and divisions and generally bring out the worst in all of us, making it that much harder for either Congress or society at large to honestly address our fears and divisions at the source, whatever that may be.
They existed well before him and will not magically disappear once he leaves office. Make no mistake, Donald Trump did not create bipartisan polarization, nor the deeper fault lines running through American society. Moreover, the stability and functionality of the government is fragile at best as long as it is forced to work around the all-pervasive distortions of a narcissistic personality cult, all the while having to act as if this were something like normal governance. They need to hear from their constituents – not least the forgotten independents who want a stable and functional government, as well as Republicans who want a stable and functional party – that it is high time for Faust to get out of hell.
The possibility may not be as far-fetched as it sounds, given that the GOP’s unfortunate choice to throw its lot in with Trump has always been more of a Faustian bargain than a matter of actual principle. That is, impeachment proceedings must have bipartisan support to have any real credibility. The visible polarization in Congress – which both reflects and is echoed by the loudest voices among the electorate – may make bipartisan impeachment proceedings more difficult to achieve, but it also makes them more necessary.