This has to be the least surprising poll in a decade: 83 percent of Americans say welfare recipients should be required to seek work. It’s mystifying, as I wrote yesterday, that Obama would choose to embrace this incredibly unpopular position. It was a bit overlooked in all the buzz about “you didn’t build that” — but it may turn out to be even more politically toxic.

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Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist, the policy editor of The Bulwark, and the host of the podcast Beg to Differ.
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