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That goes into some depth about what I was talkin' about yesterday. He's losing Congress.

"Putting aside the question of whether Trump should be president, what congressional Republicans are realizing is that their protection may not be enough to keep him as president, and that changes the calculus significantly. Trump has so infuriated the intelligence agencies that leaks will reveal his misdeeds whether or not congressional Republicans launch a real investigation. Trump can’t be confidently defended in public, because he will contradict his own White House and his own surrogates, making it dangerous for top Republicans to yoke themselves to his explanations. (On the night the Comey memo broke, Fox News’s Bret Baier complained that he couldn’t get a single Republican to come on his show to argue the president’s case.)

You can think of Republicans and Trump as caught in a prisoner’s dilemma: Both would benefit from cooperating to suppress the flow of awful stories about Trump, but if Trump is temperamentally incapable of acting in a disciplined, restrained manner, then it might behoove congressional Republicans to get ahead of the revelations about his conduct rather than being caught behind them.

Then there is the hardest question, the one that gnaws at the souls of even Trump’s protectors. Is this a man who can really be trusted with nuclear weapons, with the surveillance state, with America’s response to a genuine crisis? We are watching Trump respond to pressure and he is failing terribly. We are watching Trump faced with easy ethical dilemmas and he is failing miserably. So far, the consequences — with the exception of sharing Israeli intelligence with Russian officials — have mostly been confined to Trump humiliating himself. But it is easy to see how these same tendencies lead to disaster if and when Trump misjudges his response to a true emergency.

All this has left Republicans increasingly uncertain as to whether protecting Trump is wise for their careers, or for their country. “Chatter has begun about what a President Mike Pence might look like,” reports Politico."

And...

"Republicans will not vote for impeachment tomorrow. They know Trump’s fall would be a calamity for their party, and they would like to avoid it if possible. Trump’s actions in recent weeks, however, have persuaded many Republicans that it would be a good thing to have an independent commission or counsel investigate Trump, because if the worst happens and information is revealed that forces Trump’s resignation or impeachment, well, perhaps that’s not such a bad thing after all — particularly if Republicans can get some of the credit rather than all of the blame."

But you should read the piece. It's well done and has plenty of links to follow for further reading. Get y'all out of your bubble.