Colbert Adds Aggro Violence to Make Reagan’s ‘Morning Again in America’ a Modern-Day GOP Ad (Video)

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On “The Late Show” Thursday, Stephen Colbert spent some time mocking the weirdness of modern-day Republican ads. If you’ve watched any, you know: The extreme gun fetishization; the violence both implied and direct; the baked-in hostility; weird music.

And then he showed what it would be like if one of the Republican Party’s most celebrated political ads ever — made for the most-celebrated Republican ever — had been made in 2022 instead of 1984.For his monologue, Colbert focused on an ad produced by right wing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose new reelection commercial features some pretty weird stuff.

It starts with her cocking a shotgun against a gloomy background — with lightning erupting from the shotgun. All set to some very generic hard rock music.“Man. ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ looks awful,” Colbert quipped.Then he played more of the ad.

Greene mentions a bunch of problems she falsely blames on Democrats, and then says “Democrats aren’t the only ones destroying farmers’ ability to food on the table,” as we see her loading a rifle while sitting in a helicopter. “We’ve got wild hogs destroying farmers’ fields.