We can already see the remarkably stupid strategy the Republicans are following on their attack of the whistleblower. “He has no first hand information”. “It is all rumors”. “He is a partisan hack.” “This is practically treason”. “You know what we used to do to spies.”
We need to let this build to a Republican/Fox feeding frenzy. We need every possible Trump supporter committed to this strategy as publicly as possible. Then, in the most public possible way, blow it up, live, on Fox...preferably on Hannity.
Remember the movie, It Could Happen to You, where Samuel Jackson plays both a street bum and a reporter? I think that is our best reference. Because really, what does it matter if the whistleblower is a bum, or the most accredited (reporter) security analyst? Everything he (or she) has said has proven to be correct. Every thing the Trumpinistas have said or done has either been illegal in and of itself, or part of a cover-up that proves they thought it was illegal.
Then we need to give every support possible to the whistlehero or heros involved.