The Florida Republican Party recently voted to suspend its state party chairman, Christian Ziegler, based largely on a rape allegation against him. The executive committee also reduced his salary to $1 and demanded his resignation. In addition, there’s the accusation that he and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, previously had a threesome with the woman now alleging rape.

The Florida Republican Party’s support for its chairman has understandably evaporated in the wake of a nasty and embarrassing sex scandal.

By contrast, sex scandals and accusations of sexual misconduct have followed the putative head of the national Republican Party, Donald Trump, for decades. And it’s not just one woman; 19 have come forward with allegations ranging from the boorish to the criminal. Yet Trump’s popularity among Republicans has been and apparently remains unscathed by the scandals.

Trump may have laid a glove on several women, but their allegations haven’t laid a glove on his popularity with Republicans — including Florida Republicans.

Just consider the contradictions. According to The Hill, “In addition to [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis,........

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