like in florida. what this action by florida state republican party today shows is they have ousted their state republican party chairman over these allegations. what this shows is that the national republican party could do the same thing. they very well could have taken seriously their own institutional responsibility, their own gate-keeping role. if the florida republican party can remove their leader, can end the political career of their leader for an allegation of sexual assault, the national republican party could have at least tried to do the same thing for their leader, who was found by a court to be liable for the same thing. but the national republican party did no such thing. they could, but they didn't try. in a two-party system, the parties matter. political institutions are a thing. political institutions matter. and in our two-party system, each of the two parties matters a lot, even when they stink,