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Well, folks, at long last, over well over a month, it appears that we are now nearing the end of

the beginning of the end of the government shutdown because last night, Democrats in the

Senate caved, they gave their approval,

60-40 vote to moving forward with a procedural vote, which would move toward the end of the

government shutdown. And make no mistake, Democrats lost. President Trump wins, the Republicans win,

Democrats themselves know that they lost. Now, they did get a win out of this. The win that

they got was by showing

that they are resistant to President Trump's agenda. They did better than they might otherwise have

in places like Virginia or Georgia or Mississippi or New Jersey or even in New York. In other words,

there is a very rabid base of Democrats who are very interested in resisting President Trump. But the reason

that the Democratic dam is breaking regarding the government shutdown is because Democrats who are in

purple states recognize that if they continue to aimlessly pound their heads against the

Trumpian wall, they are going to lose their Senate seats. That's what actually happened last night.

So according to Axios,

which first reported what was going on yesterday, shutdown fatigue triumphed over anger among moderate

Democrats in the Senate, which took a crucial procedural step late last night toward ending the

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