Whether he knows it or not, Sen. Steve Daines is feeling rather European. To give President Trump some steel slats, he proposes upending centuries of precedent by ending the legislative filibuster, and embracing parliamentary, majority-take-all government.

Conservatives would be wise to side with the Founders rather than the junior senator from Montana. The filibuster remains the best institutional defense of the original, bicameral design of the legislature.

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