but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
since one of those states is florida. and we ll see how this all resolves.e in michigan, over time, presumably they ll have to sort it out somehow. you can t have two parties that both claim to be the republican party of michigan. you can t have two different people who claim to be the republican party chair in michigan with the other one illegitimate and a usurper and part of a sinister plot. in florida at least, though, they did sort it out today, this messy gut-churning effort to throw out their party leader for being an accused rapist. it did finally finish today. they did finally throw him out. and that does at least show you that political parties, even today, are capable of policing themselves to exclude bad actors from their leadership, to exclude, say, people accused of sexual assault. former president trump himself was recently found by a court to be liable for a sexual assault in new york state. that s a court finding, not just