The anti-filibuster effort is winning

The comments from Biden were significant, because, as a presidential candidate in 2020, he rejected the idea of nixing the filibuster. Then earlier this year, he began talking about reforming it to make it more difficult for the would-be filibusterers. Then a few weeks ago, he floated eliminating it for the debt ceiling. Now he’s talking about doing it for a specific issue area — voting rights, on which Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill last week — that could logically presage a rather swift further rolling-back of the filibuster.