So what is a high crime? It is something from England. Impeachment is not a criminal trial but a political process.
You would think a 'High CRIME' must include some CRIMINAL Activity...like committing fraud, attempting to deceive a Judge / Jury with false testimony resulting in being stripped of your license to practice law, not beating a political opponent in an election.
That is, you would think that if you had forgotten completely about the Democrats.
Democrats have been fantasizing / having wet dreams about 'evening the score' with Republicans since the day Bill Clinton was Impeached. They know he will never be 'IMPEACHED' because it will not make it through the Senate - it's all about Impeaching him in the house, being willing to tear the nation apart to do that much even when they know it will go no further...and will NOT be based on any criminal activity involving non-existent illegal collusion with Russians.
This is about 'revenge' and 'hate', pure and simple.
On first hearing the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors", many people probably think that it is just an 18th century way of saying “felonies and misdemeanors.” If this interpretation were correct, “high crimes and misdemeanors” would simply mean any crime. But this interpretation is mistaken.
The term today is rarely used except when referencing impeachment. However, the founders were well aware of what it meant. The convention adopted “high crimes and misdemeanors” with little discussion because most of the framers knew the phrase quite well. It had been used in the colonies for impeachment of judges and government officials and had been in use in England for hundreds of years.
Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown. Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” granting warrants without cause, and bribery. Some of these charges were crimes. Others were not. The one common denominator in all these accusations was that the official had somehow abused the power of his office and was unfit to serve.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors - Constitutional Rights Foundation