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Media commentators in the MAGA movement shredded Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday over a new TV ad depicting white male gamers as the target of a state welfare fraud crackdown — and claimed the Republican hadn't injected enough race into her messaging.

Drawing the ire of the right: Sanders' promotion of new work requirements for Natural State welfare recipients, featuring a tousle-headed gamer named "Brad," shown in the advert mashing a video game controller and scarfing potato chips.

"Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession," Sanders tells voters in the ad. "But you, you actually work hard. You pay taxes to cover welfare for guys like Brad who just choose not to work."

Republicans and conservatives eyeing greater restrictions on welfare recipients have repeatedly invoked the image of a gamer, typically young and male, when speaking about Americans they say abuse government benefits. But Sanders' cheese ball-munching "Brad" proved especially offensive to far-right commentators.

The dustup targeting Sanders, a longtime Trump loyalist and former White House press secretary during his first term, illustrates how achieving long-standing conservative policy goals — like work requirements for government aid recipients — is often not enough for identity-obsessed MAGA allies, who want to display dominance over their perceived political enemies far more than they want to fix the nuts and bolts of governance.

Conservative podcast host Matt Walsh claimed the number of single white men on welfare was "minuscule" and "practically non-existent."

"Meanwhile, back in reality, women are significantly more likely to be on welfare than men," Walsh fumed in a reply to Sanders posted to twitter. "And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/wingers-mad-anti-welfare-ad-190440973.html

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