Believe it or not, attack ads during political campaigns used to be far less common. Although there were obviously exceptions, it used to be that candidates sparred on the issues without resorting to personal jabs.

But it seems those days are gone forever.

In fact, even as the level of “official campaign ads” that contains spurious claims and name-calling has gone up, the number of unofficial attacks like this is rising as well. It’s largely contained to the GOP, although the Democrats have gone dirty in retaliation here and there.

But Donald Trump has a whole new brand when it comes to campaigning.

He figures, with all of the freakishly obsessed people who are his fans making disgusting videos about his political enemies, why not just use the freedom of social media to amplify voices that he can later claim he wasn’t affiliated with?

The latest “parody” video he >posted on Sunday on his Truth Social account is one of the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been covering politics for decades.

It opens on a Photoshop of Harris holding a sign that says “I’m a moron” and careens downhill from there.

Set to the tune of Alanis Morrisette’s “Ironic,” the song has been lyrically altered to reference any number of debunked talking points that Trump just won’t stop using: The “stolen” election, a coup by the Democrats to force Joe out of the race, communism, all the biggest hits.

Maybe the most repugnant of all, though, is the sexist, racist bit of the song, where the maker of the video goes back to the ugliest lie of all.

The GOP decided early on that they were going to try to push the idea of Harris “sleeping her way to the top,” and pointing at her relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown 30 years ago.

Republicans claim that Harris performed sexual favors for a married man in exchange for political appointments.

They neglect to mention that Brown had been separated from his wife for 13 years when he and Kamala dated, and that his first appointment for her was to a near-entry-level position — eight years after their relationship was over.

So what does a disgusting sexual reference sound like in song?

“Spent her whole damn life down on her knees; To be commander in chief, that’s how you say please.”

That’s followed shortly after in the video by a clip of Kamala making a hand gesture during a speech that’s clearly outlining either a timeline or the size of something. But after a like about oral sex, it’s pretty clear that the maker of the video intended the latter.

How did presidential politics get here?

Trump posted a disgusting video on Truth Social where the words were changed to an Alanis Morissette song to say that Kamala Harris “spent her whole damn life down on her knees" to become the Democratic nominee for president. pic.twitter.com/caSCPIHh81

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 19, 2024