It’s been decades since I watched it with anything like regularity. That was during the Mike Meyers era. Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks (two of my favorites) were also a part of that stellar cast and those two are gone. I remember fuming over the liberal slant back then, too. But they would take jabs at the liberals every once in awhile. If only to say they did.
I agree that era was one of the best.