This dude is basically indistinguishable from any reactionary conservative at this point.
Citations Needed did an episode about this. He basically is completely convinced that LA is a lawless hellscape and we need more cops and bigger prisons to fill with as many homeless peopleas possible. He is even in favor of sweeps of homeless encampments.
Adam Johnson wrote this article too if you're a reading-type.
TYT basically has a segment that is the same as "the knockout game" segment from Breitbart where they cherry-pick black on white assaults and say "See! They're coming for you and your family".
He believes that this lawlessness is caused by bail reform because we're allowing pre-trial release of these people without them having to post a cash bail (i.e. not denying them innocent until proven guilty because they're poor).
He doubled down on his positions during a Thanksgiving debate with his nephew Hasan Piker.
It's sad that this is how the largest "left wing" media outlet in the US is being run but ultimately unsurprising. The guy also does union-busting.
Was so bizarre to watch the transition in 2015/16 from being huge Bernie supporters to reluctant but obedient Hillary one, and then rightfully criticizing Hillary’s intransigent entitlement that it was Her Turn and basically running no campaign at all aside from Not Trump.
Now they’re fear-mongering the homeless in LA and union-busting?
I despise these little Neoliberal douche bags. There were more than a few moments over the past decade in which Cenk really seemed to get the economic populism of the Left and articulate it pretty well. I guess it’s the classic gutless, jettison the conscience transformation that getting a pile of money does. Same thing happens to Colbert, and so many others. They’re bought off to toe the company line.