THREAD: @chucktodd: Today appears to be the day that you can mark in your calendars as the day that represents the Republican Party's complete and total surrender to Donald Trump.

Whether it's the Republican Party's revolt against Liz Cheney in Washington, or their new voting restrictions in Florida and Texas, or the bizarre audit of the presidential results in Arizona, the Republican Party has surrendered to a lie ...

... as it surrenders to Trump and, let’s not mince words, it means the American democracy is in really big trouble, moreso today than it was yesterday.

The number three House Republican Liz Cheney is being ousted from party leadership for the sin of speaking out against her party's embrace of the former president's outright lie that the election was stolen from him.

And it’s not just why she's being ousted that is so alarming, it is also the way that Republicans are absurdly rationalizing it. They claim Cheney is out of step with the party, that she's stuck in the past, that she won't stop talking about the 2020 election results.

It's pretty clear that what they really mean is that she's out of step with the party's embrace of Trump's lies about those election results, which he and the many in the party won't stop talking about. It’s not Liz Cheney that keeps bringing it up. It’s Donald J. Trump.

In fact, Trump has already put out two statements today pushing those lies about the vote, including a very detailed statement explicitly reiterating his belief in a proven lie. ...

Add it all up and it’s pretty clear that the conservative movement as it used to be-- based on principles and democracy -- has been snuffed out. And Liz Cheney was the last flickering light among the elected GOP leadership and the light is out.

Trump co-opted conservatism and now he’s bankrupted it. https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/chuck-todd-gop-is-surrendering-to-a-lie-as-it-surrenders-to-trump-111449157564