You did not read what he said.
Republicans would never abolish the filibuster of their own volition. The second they lose the Senate with a Democratic President. That's the end of 100 years of conservatism, and they know it.
What the OP should have said, was Republicans suspending the filibuster, to achieve what he rightly fears would happen, and on that point, I'm in full agreement with him. No offense was intended whatsoever in my reply to the OP. To the contrary...
I share the same fear, because Republicans are slick.
They would justify all of those actions through suspension, rather than abolishment of the filibuster, in order to keep it intact, to prevent reversal by Democrats in the future. They have done this before.
Republicans would howl like monkeys, if Democrats suspended the filibuster to reverse any actions they put in place, by lying that Democrats were in fact abolishing it, to take away the votes in low populated red states, which they have always done. Wyoming voters have 70 times the power of California voters because of the filibuster. You OK with that?
It is the reason why Democrats must, and should abolish the Filibuster the first chance they get, because as I stated in my reply. They cannot win a tit for tat in passing, or reversing laws unpopular with the majority of people.
Republicans are going to get these unpopular laws passed anyway, slowly but surely, over time, while we have no way to reverse them, by relying on court decisions. Democrats are going to have to eventually suck it up, and allow Republicans to push through without filibuster resistance, the laws we don't agree with, because they hurt the people,
While we are going to have to put up with some suffering, which we are already doing anyway. By abolishing the filibuster, it gives us the opportunity the second we get power back, to push through by brute force, repeal after repeal to revers 100 years of conservatism in one Presidential term. Pack the federal judiciary, by appointing 100 more justices to Scotus if necessary, and 100 new district, circuit, and appeals court judges in every district in the country, and immediately bring cases to all of those courts to either reverse, or confirm all of our efforts.
The next time Republicans won power back. While they would be successful at reversing some of those efforts. They wouldn't be successful at reversing all of them. Our position grows stronger, as theirs grow weaker, and it's rinse, and repeat the next time we win back the power.
Over time. The unpopular conservative positions that were forced through all of those years of the filibuster are gone. Permanently. There is no other way that's ever going to happen, and it's where Democrats have failed us over that time.
