Last week President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department canceled the government’s annual Household Food Security survey — arguing the “nonstatutory report has become overpoliticized,” and amounts to “subjective, liberal fodder” that does “nothing more than fearmonger.”

Experts on the left predictably objected, but Trump can point to support from an unexpected place: The Democrat-aligned group Third Way.

In a recent memo, the center-left think tank confirmed that everyday Americans’ rightful distrust of concepts like “food insecurity” — which for most doesn’t mean actually going hungry, just worrying about going hungry — and other terms that have become central to progressives’ efforts to grow government welfare benefits.

Released in August, the Third Way memo (addressed to “All W

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