President Joe Biden has now embraced the idea of destroying the filibuster in the Senate. This would mean that a simple majority could pass any type of legislation through the chamber. In this specific case, he is saying this in order to placate an angry left-wing base over the Supreme Court‘s recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which restored democracy to the issue of abortion.

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