A Senate trial is being depicted as a terrible trauma that would be just too much of an ordeal to be inflicted on the American people. Of course not. Nor will a Senate trial cause us to collapse like a house of cards.
Nobody is forced to watch it or read about it.
If the public is bored with it and stops watching, the major TV networks are unlikely to keep broadcasting it, even if it is still shown on C-SPAN or some of the cable networks. When the impeachment of Richard Nixon was before Congress, we were in the midst of a war in Vietnam that was far bigger than Clinton's four-day bombing of Iraq. Within a week after Nixon resigned, the stock market began rising. The sky is not going to fall, no matter what happens to Bill Clinton. It is not.