Senate Republicans rebuffed President Trump’s Twitter demand on Tuesday for an end to the legislative filibuster. As long as the filibuster remains in place, it will be much harder for Republicans to push key elements of the Trump agenda through the upper chamber. Why are Republicans determined to save a 60-vote threshold that makes it more difficult for them to achieve their legislative goals?

One reason is tradition. “The Founding Fathers set it up this way,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said. Which isn’t quite true: the origins of the filibuster can be traced back to an 1806 rule change, but that still means the Senate survived its first 15 years without the filibuster.

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