I did see a lot of the show as a liberal self-criticism. If you grill some liberals enough, ask them the main problems with their ideology, they'll eventually bend to saying like they're too harsh on gun ownership, or they don't support the military hard enough, or they're not hard enough on racism. I think liberals know they're far too forgiving of reactionaries and know if they had unanimous power, that reaction would still fester and eventually consume them. The show is pretty honest in that regard, but it makes the wrong conclusion of asserting liberal institutions are still redeemable.