Even as polls show that support for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office is supported by over 50% of Americans and despite damaging new testimony almost every day in the impeachment inquiry, roughly 40% remain solidly on Trump’s side.

Trump finds himself on precarious ground with over 50% of registered voters supporting his eviction from the White House, but the president is betting that the rock solid support of his base will intimidate Republican senators from voting to remove him from office.

The buffoon’s solid core of supporters provides a political foundation that energizes him and inoculates him from criticism from political leaders, pundits and educators. I expect that as the impeachment drive heats up, Trump will be holding rallies every week.

Some patriots think that Trump will be impeached and removed from office only if he loses the support of his base and therefore they are imploring his hardcore supporters to accept the overwhelming mountain of evidence that the president is guilty of obstruction and abuse of power.

Unfortunately, Trump will never lose the support of his base, his base of white evangelicals has a religious devotion to him that isn’t shaken by facts or evidence.

The only hope for our democracy is that enough Republican senators will put our country over their party, and democracy over the zeal of white evangelicals, and do the right thing and remove the fascist from office.