If the filibuster remains intact, Senate Republicans will keep the Senate in gridlock, blame Democrats for it, and then run on Democrats’ supposed incompetence in the 2022 midterms.
There is 0 reason for the Democrats not to wield their power to get rid of this thing.
Someone recently told me that “difficult to work with” often really means “difficult to take advantage of” in creative industries, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that for weeks