President Donald Trump appears ready to make good on his threat to permanently fire tens of thousands of federal workers in conjunction with the federal shutdown.

First, by dangling federal worker livelihoods and health care funding for low-income Americans out as bait, Trump is bestowing an incredible compliment upon Democrats. By threatening those two groups as a means to pressure Democrats in negotiation, Trump is exhibiting just how much Democrats truly care about the lives and livelihoods of the common worker as well as not-wealthy Americans.

Second, in trying to blame his own actions on others, Trump is using the cruelest of all abuser justifications. Throughout time, abusers have yelled “look at what you made me do to you” at their beaten and bloody victims. In reality, all abuser

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