Satire is so often wasted on the educated! Thin-skinned Christians are no better at judging his work than those idiots who call him a racist because Huck Finn repeatedly uses the term nigger.
Though Twain was a misanthrope, there are glimmers of respect for true faith in his writings though he openly called out the hucksters and the fools. If you really think his judgement of the trinket salesmen harsh, how do you view another’s anger that drove Him to pick up a whip?
Sometime satire is wasted because it’s just wasted.
Thanks.