What did they expect? You got folks to tune in to check it out...it opened with about 10 anti trump republicans are evil jokes before the opening credits.
No doubt that the fan base of the show originally was probably tilted more left, but it wasn’t exclusively...
This was a dumb idea to bring this thing back IMHO.
Just like the next Dr Who will likely see a curiousoty spike as they cast a female... then it will quickly collapse down to lower than they were before.
Very dumb but since they don't have an original idea in the whole of Hollyweird, much of the fall schedule is a reincarnation of past shows.