Joe Manchin campaign ad from 2010 was the first one I can remember where the tough guy politician pulls out a gun and symbolically shoots something his pollsters tell him target voters don’t like.
It’s kind of the same logic thread that leads to “can’t we drop a nuke on a hurricane?”
Since then it’s been kind of a thing. In MTG’s case below, the target is a car that gets good mileage – weirdly labeled “socialism”.
That said, there’s this today:
Socialism is the horrible concept that we think of people other than ourselves and promote the General Welfare. It’s completely un-American!