The government should maintain a social safety net to support infrastructure, civil rights, and the welfare of its citizens.

“Um that that New Deal idea that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, protect civil rights, and help to underpin an international rules-based order.”

The post-World War II period in the United States successfully implemented a robust social safety net based on the principle of being one's brother's keeper.

“It you know, there are deep questions about what the forces were that led to it, but I think you're right to say there was a period in the United States where we believed in a robust social safety net.”

Michael Popok claims that Donald Trump has cruelly exploited vulnerable populations by obstructing SNAP payments as a political tactic.

“He attacked the impoverished in America who is who is such a fragile population we should be embracing them regardless of our political stripe. And he attacked them and said effectively I'm going to make a political football out of you and make a political example out of you because I guess you're p”