What to make of the new AI election ad created by the filmmaker Charles Curran on behalf of Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star who is running to be Mayor of Los Angeles? The radio host Buck Sexton has already hailed the video as the future of political communication, and Jeb Bush has called it “maybe the best political ad of the year.”

The video, which Pratt did not commission, but did repost on social media, shows California worthies – incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, and Kamala Harris – assembled for a sinister banquet.

Victims are brought before them: a mother whose children are being harassed by the city’s homeless, and a prostrate Hugh Jackman, who begs to be allowed to rebuild his house in Pacific Palisades. The day is saved by Pratt, here portrayed as Batman, who beats up uniformed DSA (‘Democratic Socialists of America’) goons and incites a mob of angry citizens to pelt Bass et al with tomatoes. “LA is worth saving,” the video concludes. 

The task of opposition has now fallen to offbeat figures like Pratt, with offbeat videos like these

The task of opposition has now fallen to offbeat........

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