[KerrAvon]

Slight historical aside here: for those too young to have been politically aware before the Obama era, the filibuster (a) is in the modern form a relatively recent invention (b) was rarely used prior to the Mitch McConnell era. McConnell and the Fox News generation of the Republican Party turned what was meant to be a tool for a last-resort veto into a sledgehammer continuously used to bludgeon the other side.