Everyone is trying to figure out what prompted the Democrats to surrender and end the government shutdown, giving Trump a big win just days after their biggest victory in years. They had the Republicans on the run—why would they fold?

It wasn’t the flight delays or the SNAP fight. It was about a looming threat to the filibuster, a Senate rule that requires a super majority of sixty votes to pass most legislation. For senators of both parties, but particularly those in opposition to the MAGA agenda, Trump’s call to “nuke” it is an ever present sword of Damocles hanging over their heads in moments of peril.

“The Democratic establishment (is) more afraid of letting the Republicans nuke the filibuster than they are of reinforcing the Democratic brand as the most pathetic, timid cowards in t

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