I actually typed up a long (and pessimistic) post in response to your post. I posted it. Then I deleted it.
I did that because I'm trying to overcome my pessimism about the Republic. I'm trying to rally.
5 years ago, I thought the Republic was suffering from a very serious but curable illness, but we had little room to mess around. About a year ago, when I saw the candidates we were coming up with, I decided that the illness had gone into its final stages, and there was no recovery. That is when I entered my acceptance stage of dealing with grief. That is why I can laugh at Trump...I had accepted that we can no longer save the Republic...so he couldn't really do anything all that bad. But, I must say, after his first few weeks in office, I'm beginning to think that he might have what it takes to save the Republic.
And yet, we have allegations that the IC is trying to stage a very non-Republican, non-Constitutional coup. And, the people who claim to love the Republic (like you) support that. It is rather astounding to me. I also see people who do love the Republic, but who don't see that Trump has the potential to turn things around. It is frustrating to me.
If we assume that the rules have not changed (and the Republic is not in its death throws), then I cannot accept as a legitimate political strategy the leaking to the press of non-criminal things to provide meat for criminal allegations to be made against a recently elected President in a purely political effort to fabricate a constitutional crisis to topple that president. The IC members who did it should be arrested and tried. Dems here claimed that Trump would create a constitutional crisis, but it is the Dems (and people like McCain and FrankL) who will, in the end, create the constitutional crisis, because they are blinded by his tweets, and cannot see the good he is doing.