As law professor Josh Blackman explains, “Democrats will nuke the filibuster if they win the White House and have majorities in both houses.”

The Democrats don’t need to abolish the filibuster to pass mainstream liberal laws. Even with the filibuster, the Democrats were still able to pass Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, and other progressive laws that cost at least $2 trillion.

But they do need to abolish the filibuster to lock in their control of Congress and the presidency in the future. By abolishing the filibuster, Democrats can pass left-wing laws that increase Democratic vote tallies at the expense of the secret ballot (such as “ballot harvesting“), and admit new progressive enclaves like the District of Columbia as states, resulting in left-wing territories with small populations each having two Democratic senators, and the Democrats permanently controlling the Senate.