Ending the filibuster is critical. And only Liz Warren supports ending it.

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37. Must end the filibuster if we want to avoid GOP control for decades.

I’ve worked with real political strategists for decades.

Indeed, among current candidates from the Senate, only Elizabeth Warren has expressed some openness to the radical (e.g., abolitionist) filibuster reform cause that most progressive policy wonks appear to support.

So would these candidates flip-flop if they became president and had a narrow Senate majority, and realized the filibuster might enable Republicans to block their entire agenda? And how do we know they would, even if we suspect they might? The fear of what Republicans might do if the shoe is again on the other foot might actually outweigh their interest in enacting all those policies they advocated on the campaign trail. And to be clear about it, that means they didn’t really care that much about these goals at all.

Indeed, as Brian Beutler points out, the unwillingness to come out flatly against the filibuster suggests a more systemic refusal to embrace a full commitment to popular democracy at a time when Republicans are using the anti-democratic aspects of our system to the absolute maximum to gain and hold onto power:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/democrats-should-trust-democracy-and-kill-the-filibuster.html