President Donald Trump’s calls to end the filibuster are getting increasingly desperate.
The president has now demanded four times in five days that Senate Republicans embrace “the nuclear option,” even as congressional leaders have remained steadfast in their support of the centuries-old check on the party in power.
Trump’s latest caps-heavy missive warned that the midterms will be “rightfully brutal” for Republicans if they don’t eliminate the filibuster and pass a spending bill to reopen the government.
“The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics be

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