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If you can do it for RvW (which they absolutely should) then go ahead and fix the other stuff that supposedly requires a law like how to exclude fascist candidates from being elected president and legalizing weed and single payer health care and prohibiting book bans (1st amendment) and reproductive rights and everything else that has had the excuse of not being able to overcome a filibuster.
Actually do stuff!
To be fair, that was exactly Warren's strategy when she was running. She's been anti-filibuster and do-stuff for a long time. Warren at least wouldn't be like "well, we solved the Roe thing, but that was a special case, now let's just stop doing good things".
Warren would have been fucking awesome. I'm so disappointed it didn't work out, but I'm also not surprised. She is the real deal. We can't actually get a president who is truly committed to bank reform and breaking up monopolies.
That said, a lot of the reason we've gotten as much progress out of the Biden administration as we have is because Warren's influence helped land a lot of her allies into key decision making positions throughout the administration. The heavy pushes on things like student debt relief or actual antitrust enforcement are coming from parts of government where she helped put the people making those decisions in place.
Like, I still would have preferred a President Warren, but in a lot of ways we ended up getting a Warren-Lite administration anyway. It's just gone largely unnoticed because she's very good at wielding soft power behind the scenes on the boring, wonky policy making stuff that doesn't get as much attention but has real impact on what government actually does.