Republicans Have Now Taken The Lead On Impeaching Trump

There is a very good reason the Democrats couldn't do it, that reason is; Republican control of the Senate.  A political exercise like an impeachment, which risks being called a partisan effort without merit and which cannot "convict" the President,  gives him the "moral high ground".  All of which calculations are playing out on a field where a good portion of the nation is not paying attention to truth and facts, but are allowing themselves to be swayed by mere emotional pleadings and rhetoric.

Thus, the only rational way to both bring the nation back together and convince the Republicans highly charged and partisan following,  without further polarizing the electorate, or running the risks of inciting more partisan fighting,  was to try to provoke the republican base to reject Trump on their own.  That means, since no amount of reasoning,  no amount of failure, was turning Trumpists away from him, it had to be done by Republicans. 

It's a mistake to paint this as "us against them" or who is winning or losing, it is the division that we are fighting against for the survival of our democratic republic.