Yes.
“It was like my father was dragged to death all over again.”
Who remembers that?
I remembered that and I was searching to find the details.
I couldn’t remember the name (James Byrd) or the details of the ad (run by the NAACP against Bush in 2000) but it certainly is the gold standard of disgusting campaign ads in my lifetime. (The girl/flower/nuke one against Goldwater sounds like it might be in the same ballpark, but it’s a few months outside the time frame I specified.)