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  1. When Republicans don’t like the filibuster, they make exceptions to it-see regulatory changes, tax changes, and judicial nominations. When Republicans don’t like the parliamentarian’s decisions, they fire them and find someone who does what they want. Democrats just roll over. @jamiedupree/1439769089459818498
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      In the end, if you have one deeply cohesive small minority party willing to play hardball, and a large coalition party who thinks it can’t play hardball, you get democratic backsliding and collapse, with the minority party the winner. Hungary in a word.
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