In Tuesday morning's tweeted temper tantrum, popular vote loser Donald Trump reacted to the new cycle reporting that he lost to Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on the budget deal by threatening a government shutdown when this bill runs out (maybe he doesn't understand that he has a veto pen—nobody tell him about that) and blaming it on the Senate and its stupid rules.
So he wants to end the filibuster. Apparently House Speaker Paul Ryan, nose now stained a permanent and unbecoming shade of brown, agrees. That's the wagon to hitch yourself to, Paulie. How about you, Mitch McConnell? You've said "no way" are you getting rid of the legislative filibuster, but that was weeks ago. Now that your party has had this big budget loss, are you ready to jump on Trump's bandwagon?
It's always been Daily Kos's position that reforming the filibuster would be a good thing. It still is. We've been talking about it here for years. But reforming it to make the Senate function more deliberatively—by actually making a filibuster work the way it's supposed to, with senators actually debating the issues and having to stand on the floor and talk through their opposition—is what we've been talking about. It's what Democratic senators like Jeff Merkley (OR) and Tom Udall (NM) and when he was in the Senate, Tom Harkin (IA) pushed for when they were in the majority. It made sense then and still makes sense.
However, yanking the filibuster because a megalomaniacal would-be tyrant can't even get his own party to pass his agenda is not reform. It's downright dangerous.