A Georgia beagle may be the secret weapon that undoes Trumpism and some of his most rabid followers and gives Democrats control of the United States Senate.

If Rev. Raphael, Warnock the Democratic candidate in one of George’s two Senate runoff elections, wins, he might have his dog to thank. Dogs always show up when we need them.

His two dog ads, both featuring a cuddly and nameless beagle, have drawn millions of views and will be taught in political ad schools for generations.

So far, Warnock has aired two ads featuring his dog. He first uses the dog to preempt a tsunami of nasty and often false Republican campaigns trying to paint him as an ideological extremist and tie him to extremist black activists.

Rev. Warnock is as much of a crazed radical socialist as Joe Biden. This may be the year a dog takes down the Big Lie.

Rev. Warnock is the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King’s Church.  In the second ad, the dog plays an even more prominent role with Warnock walking him through a suburban neighborhood, poop bag in hand, while condemning Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s “smear ads” against him.

“I think Georgians will see her ads for what they are – don’t you?” he asks, just before throwing his poop bag into the garbage. What a polite way to tell someone they are full of it.

The beagle (no name is given for the dog) barks in support and licks Rev. Warnock’s face. A-w-w-w-w-w-w!, as the dog lovers say.

I don’t know if the dog deserves all the credit, but since the ads, Rev. Warnock has moved out in front of his opponent in almost all of the polls. That is a big surprise; the Republicans are in full panic.

A dog might be rewriting history and showing us how much more dogs can accomplish than senators and congress members.

It’s a cute ad, but it is also a brilliant ad. The two spots have gone viral, generating almost nine million views, while Warnock’s dog tweets have drawn over half a million likes on Twitter. The Warnock campaign is even selling  “Puppies for Warnock” merchandise.

Political professionals claim the ads are not just about being cute; they are a savvy way to neutralize racial stereotypes that could work against  Warnock as he campaigns to become Georgia’s first African American senator.

I think Warnock has a good chance to win in Georgia. There seems to be a lot of momentum and energy behind his campaign.

Like Biden, he doesn’t really ever take the bait, not seriously. He is a much loved and very even-tempered man with a gentle manner. A longtime pastor in a historic church, the dangerous radical label doesn’t fit him any more than it fit Biden.

And it’s certainly true if you think about it. Politicians cuddling beagles don’t seem dangerous.

Hakeem Jefferson, a Stanford professor, and a FiveThirtyEight contributor, reported that “This ad is doing a lot. It’s obviously] cute, but it is also meant to deracialize Warnock with this cute ‘white people-friendly’ doggy.” Fordham University political scientist and MSNBC contributor Christina Greer similarly wrote on Twitter, “This ad will be taught in Race Politics classes for years to come…it is doing A LOT of silent, heavy lifting.” And The New York Times’s Jamelle Bouie concurred: “Yep. The setting, Warnock’s outfit, even the dog breed all are sending a specific message.”

Dog politics, like racial politics, are complex.

According to Pew Research, there are more than twice as many white dog owners than African- American dog owners in America. Blacks have a troubled history with dogs, dating back to slavery and the civil rights demonstrations; in both cases, dogs were used against them.

The breed of Warnock’s dog is also significant, helping to counteract negative racial stereotypes of dog ownership.

When University of California Irvine researchers asked people which dog breeds they thought white and Black people were more likely to own, the majority guessed that Black people owned rottweilers and pit bulls. In contrast, white people owned golden retrievers, collies, Labradors, and Dalmatians.

While Beagles weren’t mentioned in that study, the breed fits comfortably alongside the popular and very “safe” breeds associated with white people.

In a race where Republicans are eager to tie Warnock to Black radicalism, that’s important. This is a Southern state where white voters are still overwhelmingly Republican. And beagles are great hunting dogs, also important in the South.

The boldness and savvy of the ad are compelling. It’s true; you don’t associate a cuddly beagle with someone who would be plotting to destroy America with his radical left leanings.

If the Warnock campaign thinks much about it, they might also point out that Baptist Ministers cannot be Marxists and Communities. Those ideologies are completely at odds with the teaching and values of the Baptist Faith.

A Baptist is a member of a  fundamentalist group of Protestant Christians who share the basic beliefs of most Protestants but who insist that only believers should be baptized and that it should be done by immersion rather than by the sprinkling or pouring of water.

Although Baptists do not comprise a single church or denominational structure, most adhere to a congregational form of church government.  Some Baptists lay stress upon having no human founder, no human authority, and no human creed.

Those beliefs are utterly incompatible with Communism or Marxism and have no relationship to Black Lives Matter or any political extremists. Since fundamentalist Christians worship Jesus and Marxism doesn’t, the campaign against Warnock makes little sense, although that doesn’t seem to matter much in American politics this year.

Rev. Warnock’s dog may soon be important, even a famous one. He just might be changing the course of American history. It’s about time a dog stepped in to save us; humans have made a mess of things.

I suppose it was only a matter of time.