President Donald Trump isn’t trying to hide the propaganda arm of his administration. In fact, he’s using taxpayer dollars to do it.

In two new ads funded by the government, the president has rallied against the perceived communist takeover of the United States. The first ad literally uses a song with a choir in the background reciting the verse "Love me."

“Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America,” Trump says in a voiceover as the words flash across the screen.

In the second ad, Trump declares that we are in the midst of the "final battle" against the "deep state." Both ads almost certainly violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from politicking, as well as other federal laws.

For years, we have known that the only person Trump cares about is himself. It is now abundantly clear that he will stop at nothing to cement his self-made mythology in history books. The question is who's planning on stopping him.

Republicans have allowed this fearmongering about the left for the past 10 years. They have nothing else to campaign off of, despite having had the White House for the last two years: our economy is tanking, there's a severe housing deficit, and the system is clearly not working for anyone except the wealthy elite. They're campaigning off of Trump as a personality because his personality is all........

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