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Sex scandal, rape accusation drive Florida GOP to strip chair's power in model of self-policing
The Florida Republican Party has demonstrated an important function of democratic institutions in stripping the party chair, Christian Ziegler, of power when Ziegler refused to resign after a rape accusation and the revelation of a three-person sexual tryst put him at odds with the values the party thought he represented. Rachel Maddow explains why institutional self-policing matters in a democracy.