The shutdown revealed a president willing to starve his own supporters

The federal government shutdown has come to a close, thank God. It was instructive in illuminating the vast differences between the two major political parties.

The American people received further confirmation that the credo of our president is to inflict hardship and cruelty not only upon his ideological foes, but upon the innocent and the vulnerable.

While most federal workers were required to work without pay during the impasse, federal money was shifted around to pay those whom the president favored: law enforcement officers, including the masked and ruthless ICE officers who have assaulted immigrant communities. The immigrant purge was deemed essential.

The president used the shutdown to attempt to furlough hundreds of thousands of government employees. He threatened to break the