Most Germans said the same thing. Look what happened. Europe said the same thing back in the 1930s. Look what happened.
Republicans said the same thing and shirked their duty to remove a rogue President. Look at what has happened. 957K dead, protests escalated into riots, and people are talking civil war. A credible threat that he is set up to sell state secrets to foreign nations. Undermining of election integrity. For the FIRST time since our nation was founded, the traditional peaceful transfer of power was challenged by an insurrection based on a lie, including a murder plot to take out the VP, a duly elected official because he would not go along with criminal activity.
A lot can happen in a short amount of time, especially with these cult personalities.
Somewhere or other, you have to draw the line or face annihilation.
It is unwise to suffer a madman or a megalomaniac to stay in power. It usually doesn't go well. The death toll can be millions rather than few or one.
If he flees, do you think Putin will spare him? If you think that, you really haven't been paying attention. It'll just be assassination by poison rather than a battle field.
Putin actually needs him to tuck tail and run. If he dies as a martyr, Putin will never truly have Ukraine.