The perils of impeachment, or how to dump Trump properly

Comment published on New York Times online blog in response to editorial, "Donald Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors," 8/23/18:

The most important thing about a possible Trump impeachment is to get right what it is about his presidency that demands we reject it.  

In 1972, Nixon was all too slowly winding down the nation's worst war, a great atrocity. He was brought down for trying to illegally undermine opponents of the war, which by then included the Democratic Party as well as the whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Soon everyone knew that the nation's biggest problem was not unjust wars to serve capital, but dishonesty in politicians.  

Trump has made our politics personal with his showy narcissism, personal attacks on opponents, and insouciance about what is true of false at the same time that he calls his critics liars armed with "false facts."  

The question is, what does this represent or mean? It is a style clearly meant to represent an idea of governance as provocation and blatant indifference to caring for justice or thinking clearly about matters of concern. This is irrational authoritarianism, as a style of managing a company or a government.  

Trump must not just be impeached because of crimes that reflect only his person. They reflect a discourse, a style, an approach to governance or "leadership."  

Trump represents an anti-democratic, and so irrational, style of governance. His crimes befit an authoritarian plutocracy. Without recourse to the bureaucratism of a Hilary, that, and not mere adultery or lies, is what must be indicted and refused.