This is like a double fakey. He was originally a correspondent on The Daily Show, and when Jon Stewart took over as host and made the show more political, Colbert played the character of a dumb conservative. He spun this gag into his own show, the Colbert Report, which was just a caricature of conservatives that some unsavvy viewers mistook for genuine. Then in 2015 he got the Late Show on CBS and dropped the fake conservative schtick. The leftist hoi polloi, jonesing for the days of Jon Stewart, have settled for Colbert as their go-to for psychological programming. How funny would it be if he is subtly redpilling them. He went from playing a fake Republican, to now playing a fake Democrat?