"Everyone" does not see the world the way you appear to, Jazzhead. Or the way I do, for that matter.
The very idea that "everyone can see" something, or that "everyone knows" something is...well, to be blunt, it's absurd. And again, I know you know that. I object to your trying to claim the mantle of "everybody" for your personal opinion.
I'll give you one part - sort of - of your last post. The prosecution of a former President for a multitude of crimes is, in fact, unprecedented. I would not have chosen the term "pursuit," because that's deliberately pejorative.
But... the reason for this unprecedented prosecution of Donald Trump is that Trump's behavior -- his consistent flouting of assorted federal and state laws -- is also unprecedented for a sitting or former President of the United States.
And here's the rub: If Donald Trump were not prosecuted for his crimes, that would establish precedent of its own... and the next time an utterly venal President chose to flout the law, and was perhaps less stupid and more competent than Donald Trump, our entire governing system would be at risk (or more at risk that it is now).
Also, what is "those of us working hard to promote alternatives"? There is no credible alternative to Donald Trump in the Republican primary contest, and there never has been. Ron DeSantis managed something like 15% support among likely Republican primary voters, and that was before the voters really knew much about him. He was, and is, a ghastly "alternative' to Trump. The personality of a turnip, the authoritarian streak of Benito Mussolini. Racist, to boot. Nice. Real nice.
No Labels? A plot to siphon votes from Joe Biden, to the benefit of Donald Trump? One semester of Political Science 101, "US Politics," should disabuse anybody of the notion that No Labels could realistically run a winning candidate, and do anything but give enough people an "alternative" to assure that the Republican demagogue wins.
I honestly don't know why I bother here. I fully expected that one or two posters (and yes, I had specific people in mind) would attempt to "both sides" this, to somehow try to equate the impeachments and indictments of Donald Trump with what Kevin McCarthy did yesterday. I fully expected that the posters attempting this would do so deliberately, as part of a partisan game.
Trump's situation is unique -- because Trump's corruption in office was unique. Trump's attempt to retain office extra-constitutionally was unique. Trump's willingness to goad his supporters to violence against our institutions was unique. (All the above among past Presidents, that is; there certainly have been people who were not US Presidents who were/are as venal as Trump.)
Kevin McCarthy's craven moral cowardice, his refusal to stand up to Donald Trump, is far from unique, unfortunately.