'I wrote that song about those people,' Anthony said with a laugh in a recent video
demonizing welfare as the domain of lazy scammers is a tried-and-tested element of the Republican playbook stretching back for decades at this point, and the line about
“minors on islandsthe American right’s favorite obsessions. Still, it’s interesting to see Anthony reject the labels , refusing to be a poster child for that particular set of beliefs.
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