America needs a hit song on the crisis of food insecurity, instead of a hit job on SNAP | STAFF COMMENTARY

Nothing tickles the pleasure center of a Republican candidate’s brain quite like culture-war country music, the angrier the better, so it came as no surprise that while the first GOP presidential debate may have lacked the “800 pound gorilla” of Donald Trump, it was graced by a song that targets obese people eating snack food subsidized by tax dollars.