That said they were duped by the "both sides are flawed" rhetoric for longer than they should have been. A Gen X myopia.

I forget which episode it was where they made it clear they understood they'd been duped, but it was after J6 as I recall.

It rings hollow when one side is the usual shitty greedy politicians and the other is for fascism.

No shit they are both sides. Everyone is fair game for them, no ones safe from satire or mocking. It’s the whole point of the show.

They pick who to mock and how thoroughly. I haven't watched the show in probably a decade, but up until this they were using Mr Garrison to portray "Trump".

Theoretically, nobody's safe, but in practice anything left of GWB is portrayed as a whiny baby, a stupid hippy, or whatever.

At least they seem to realize that "left wokeism" isn't the top threat in the country anymore, even if they were suckers for buying that it was in the first place.

Edit: I don't know what to tell you guys, they even have characters in this episode that are like "just because wokeism went too far in one direction doesn't mean we should go too far in the other". They really do seem to believe that because liberals are annoying to them that they're just as bad as concentration camp Trump.

Giant douche vs turd sandwich?

Satire is just really confusing for some

Who are the heroes? The people who watch this show

Trey and Matt were vocal libertarians for a long time and only recently realized it's a morally bankrupt political position.

For example they mocked Gore for warning about global warming. There was no "both sides are to be mocked" in that episode. It was, "Gore is a complete idiot." That was season 10. 12 years later they realized their mistake and made an apology episode where they showed Gore was right all along.

So yeah, good for them for finally coming around but the OP isn't wrong that they lead their libertarian mob towards the cliff.