What would have been the downside of ending the filibuster since Democrats RARELY used in minority?

[Mc Mike]

6. You're right.

And I strongly suspect that the repugs will end the filibuster for minority Dems the next time the repugs get the Senate majority, (which I hope is far from occurring any time soon).

It would be a hypocritical and outlandish power grab if they do so, after screaming and crying about the possibility of the Dems ending the filibuster power for minority repugs. But that's how the repugs operate. Any accusations they get really worked up about are projection on their part. When they try to commit election fraud, they scream accusations of election fraud at their opponents. When they behave as racists, they scream accusations of racism against their opponents. When they act treasonously, they scream accusations of treason against their opponents. So if they become a majority Senate party again, any attempt at filibustering will be met with screaming accusations that the Minority Dems are trying to de-rail and destroy the government. And the repugs will end the filibuster, they will commit the act they are currently characterizing as an 'evil treasonous power grab'. But it is only characterized like that by repugs if Dems dare to commit it against the repugs.

Mitch with his 420 filibusters of a Dem majority Senate is something we've never had occur when we were the minority party, and the Democrats (and America) could have benefitted from it. The repugs always like to stay one step ahead tactically, always do radical things that are either unprecedented or more extreme than have ever been done before.

This pretty much guarantees the repugs will do it to us, as soon as they get a chance. If they're calling it evil now, they will do it when they're in power. That's how they operate. Easy to predict.