“This ad campaign is over the top”

GOP outraged about new ad campaign comparing them to KKK

In response to yesterday's controversial advertisement by the New Faces GOP, self-proclaimed «Squad» member and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D - NYC), who was also targeted by the video showing a photograph of her being burnt, following footage of skulls of Cambodians victimised by the Khmer Rouge, to whom the young female Representative and self-entitled Democratic Socialist was compared, herself recorded an own ad comparing the GOP to white supremacists and even the Ku Klux Klan, a domestic terrorist fraternity known for having persecuted African-Americans following the failed Reconstruction of the Southern states, and for sporting bed sheets while burning crucifixes in gardens.
As it can be seen in the video so far not broadcasted on cable news but only shared via Ocasio-Cortez' Twitter account, the scheme is the same: It shows a photograph of Ms. Elizabeth Heng, who herself unsuccessfully ran an election for California's 16th District, which she lost to her Democratic opponent Jim Costa, who at this time was the incumbent Representative. slowly burning from the inside to then be overlapped by video footage of American History X, followed by video footage of hooded KKK members on horseback, hunting African-Americans. A voice from the background rhetorically asks Ms. Heung whether she didn't know of the horrors of white supremacy and illiberal ideologies. The gruesome black-and-white videos are immediately succeeded by more current events captured by journalists: The «Unite the Right» protest in Charlottesville, N.C. that led to the sudden death of antifascist demonstrator Heather Heyer, hit by a car driven by outspoken National-Socialist James Alex Fields. 

Standing out of the entire video was a scene showing headlines of reports of exorbitantly high medical bills people had to pay for operations, thus having bankrupted themselves. The headlines quickly faded away, and Ocasio-Cortez herself appeared, holding a short-yet-inspired speech about her agenda ranging from affordable healthcare to “reinstating the separation of powers; that is to remove the incumbent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) by a more responsible Senator, disregarding the party line.” Furthermore, she elaborated that “our country, for the last two years of President Trump's tenure, our country has been divided between partisan lines, Congress is no longer capable of agreeing on bipartisan interests, but is now caught in a dilemma of perhaps agreeing upon another party's bill but unable to express this point of view because he or she might risk to be caught in a gauntlet of devout Senators or Representatives 'loyal' to our President.”

On a different note, she also criticised the President's assumptions of members of his party to be fully loyal, thus making it impossible for Congress to holding him to account. “Not only does he presume every member of his party and all of his secretaries to be loyal to him, come hell or high water, but also does he presume this same loyalty from the Senate, currently occupied mainly by his party. He diminishes our founding principle of a separation of powers, to avert absolutist rulership as he imagines to install it eventually.” Her last remark referred to a comment made by Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale, who said that it was exactly Trump's plan, which he previously indicated with tweets announcing to run for a third term and beyond, appreciated by random Twitter sympathisers and equally condemned by critics of his. 

The Angkor Wat in Cambodia. 
(Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay)

Republicans weren't immediately available for comments, but expressed their disliking via email. Sen. Graham (R - S.C.) wrote to us that “Ms. Ocasio-Cortez' reaction was plain foreseeable, she couldn't just let it rest and move on. Instead, she had to show us how easily triggered she is by even the slightest criticism against her Socialist, anti-American agenda.” Senate Majority Leader, one of the targets in the Representative's video, was similarly vexed by the response to the New Faces GOP ad. In a short comment on his way to work, he told us that “I will look into any legal actions I could probably take to challenge 'Ms. AOC's' video. I will not stay here and become a sandbag for such immature jests. We are politicians, not some children battering on the playground.”

Scarcely, appreciations or sympathy could be heard as well. Rep. Chip Roy, who once sided with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez to pass a bill on banning former members of Congress who became lobbyists afterwards, too sided with her in regards to her reaction on the deprecating advertisement. “I might not often agree with her,” the 47-year old Texas Republican admitted, “but when it comes to mutual respect, such some actions cannot be tolerated. I watched the ad during yesterday's debate, and just as Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, I was utterly stunned.”

When we asked the president for comment on the campaign ad run by one of his party's PACs, he told us on the phone that “I told you before, and I will tell you again: ABC is a totally corrupted broadcaster bringing up nothing but completely made-up fake news. Whenever they speak about me, all they say is lies. They are all the enemy of the people, just like you. They don't like me because I make America great again, while all of the crooked Democrats want to destroy America.” When being reminded that the ad actually compared a Democratic Congresswoman to a totalitarian Cambodian regime known as the Khmer Rouge, he rumoured that “I'm sure she totally deserved it, for all the bad things she said about me, and all the lies she spread. I'm hanging up now, have got a lot of work to do, bye bye.” Until the end, it was uncertain whether he knew what we meant.