really both parties oppose the nuclear option because it means they would have to do actual work
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Also the rule was created on accident in 1806, and no one used it for 20 years, really part of the core identity of the Senate
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I'm speaking specifically of the two-track system, before which filibuster required you to hold the floor and impeded all business
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that's what changed it from an exceedingly rare tactic, and one that often failed, to defacto supermajority for literally anything
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Dunno that I'd characterize it as 'often failing' - it was very effective for the south until Johnson swindled them - but yeah agree with your main point
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