President Donald Trump argues about border security with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (R) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Vice President Mike Pence sits nearby in the Oval Office on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Getty Images

The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend to the longest government closure ever.

It also simultaneously highlights one of President Trump’s most sweeping and crucial Washington victories over his most toxic opponents.

Ever since his first election in 2016, Trump has been thwarted, tormented, impeached and mocked by Schumer and former Dem House leader Nancy Pelosi .

And now he has turned the tables on them in devastating fashion,

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