Current media claims this whole thing is shifting again and Trump support increases. The idea is that Trump supporters will end up backing him and the impeachment only makes him stronger for 2020. OK, he is backed by the invisible Cambridge Analytica and many people from it. Am I surprised? It's not like his supporters would now turn away from him.
The bottom line is that Donald Trump will see any impeachment effort as a stain against him and will do anything to make it all go away. As for the actual whistleblower:
OMG, we have to discredit that whistleblower.
It's the tool the morally bankrupt Republicans have left in their tool box.
I take Chris Wallace with a grain of salt. I'll wait to see where and to whom he bounces next week. He ain't his Daddy as a journalist, and thus his work will remain circumspect even in the best light.
Maybe, just maybe, a grand awakening is on the verge of being hatched. Still, I'm not holding my breath.