Ignore this story entirely and focus attention on substantive governance events occurring this week, such as the multi-state legal challenges to mail-in voting restrictions or DOJ enforcement actions.
This is a routine political career development story about a state-level politician with no federal governance implications, no institutional mechanisms, and no constitutional dimensions. The event involves a former governor's personal political trajectory ending, which has zero bearing on democratic institutions, rule of law, or civil rights. It qualifies as noise under all criteria: A<25, null mechanism, no institutional lever, purely spectacle/vanity content.