President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on his way to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. AP
There are no saviors or happy endings in politics — just a grueling, soul-sucking, forever-war of attrition.
Everyone in power seems to forget this detail.
That includes President Donald Trump , who has again decided to exert pressure on Republicans to overturn the legislative filibuster and end the Democrat-generated government shutdown.
“Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“We have to get the country open. And the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” the president reportedly told Republican senators at a breakfast this week.
Nuking the filibuster is unprincipled, but it also makes little polit

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