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.
It was pretty rough to listen to Cenk talk about homeless people as drugged up zombies with no regard to the trauma that is entailed with living on the street.
When I was a teenager during the '08 crash my family had our house foreclosed on, which tanked my parent's credit score and we were fortunate enough to move into my grandparent's guest bedroom over that summer because people wouldn't rent to my parents with shit credit.
But my folks were divorced and my dad was going to school through a for-profit school that just saddled his ass with debt he couldn't pay and lost his job during the recession. He eventually became homeless and they garnished his wages to cover his student debt and could never rent a place because of poor credit and garnished wages while making $8 an hour. He was homeless for 5 years despite having various jobs during most of that time, sleeping on the street and not being guaranteed a spot in the shelter really makes it hard to function as a person. You become, rightfully, paranoid because when you sleep someone's always trying to take your shit or fuck with you from the cops, other homeless, or passersby. We would go to the movies and pick whatever the oldest/worst movie to see was so he could get sleep during the day since he worked nights and shelters don't shelter you during the day. He's better now but the streets really fucked with his head.