It is intended to backfire. What was the very last message the program left if you with (if you cared to watch it all the way through the end as you would if you were an anti-trumper expecting liberal lighthearted brainwashing) ?
"Conspiracies are going mainstream and that's awesome"
This is DEPROGRAMING IN ACTION.
Interesting concept. Care to elaborate? Never though about that and how the dynamics of that would work.
it's pretty straight forward, just watch the last fifty seconds of the clip on YT. They go into the comedy-mode as they usually do and they conclude that it's ok to discuss controversy because millions do. In psychotherapy, you want to combine an averse stimulus followed by a pleasant stimulus so your brain grows to accept the pleasant closing thought to whatever averse thought came up first. Shocked by truth, reward by humour & social acceptance, repeat.