There’s a scene in the latest South Park episode, “Got a Nut,” in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem leads a squad of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents through the pearly gates of heaven. “Only the brown ones. If it’s brown, it goes down,” she instructs. It’s a depiction so grotesque and absurd it could only come from the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who revel in taking real-world figures and dialing their worst traits up to cartoonishly sociopathic extremes.

But before conservatives rush to denounce South Park as the latest casualty of “wokeism,” it’s worth remembering that this is tame compared to past episodes skewering liberal sacred cows. Stone and Parker have lampooned Al Gore as a delusional fearmonger chasing ManBearPig (climate change hysteria), portrayed Hillary Clinton with a literal nuke hidden in her nether regions, and recast former President Barack Obama as a jewel thief. South Park has always been an equal-opportunity offender, and the ability to laugh at your side is essential to appreciating its clever, ruthless comedy.

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