‘Morning Joe’ Laments GOP ‘Personality Cult’: ‘Reagan Couldn’t Win a Primary in the Republican Party These Days’

EXCERPT:

SYKES: “Ronald Reagan couldn’t win a primary in the Republican Party these days. You know what’s really extraordinary about the Liz Cheney and the Mitt Romney stories right now, is look at their actual voting records. Liz Cheney is, she’s not like us, Joe. She’s not a squishy RINO, she has a plus 95 percent rating from conservative groups. She was a Trump loyalist up until January 6th. Mitt Romney’s not voting for the Biden agenda. My point is here that these are Republicans that are very conservative, have been very consistent, and yet, because of the one issue, the lack of loyalty, blind loyalty to Donald Trump, they’re being cast out. So there is no other litmus test. It does not matter whether you have been a fiscal conservative, whether you have voted down the line with the Republican Party. This is the only thing that counts right now. Whether you will buy the big lie, whether you will defend Donald Trump, whether you will look the other way for January 6th. And I don’t see any indication that that’s changing anytime soon.”

(h/t Mediaite)