I never took it that he was ridiculing ‘conservatives’ I took it that he was ridiculing southern ‘rednecks’ who are both poor and not well educated.
That group may be conservative, but they in no way represent the broad range of conservative people.
I think a second aspect of the bit was actually ridiculing blacks. Hanks character was portrayed as a ‘stupid country bumpkin’, but his responses hit home as being the natural thinking of the black contestants. He was supposed to be a racist redneck, thus an object of scorn. But ‘Doug’ was up to matching the Blacks. So what does that say about them.
Watch it again and think of Doug not as a conservative, but just a country boy from the rural south.
I had lunch years back talking to the conservative “film consultants” for The Pacific and Band of Brothers. No names needed..
They all point to Tom Hanks for making the WW2 National Museum a reality.
They would talk about the politics involved on why the WW2 museum couldnt be built (red tape) , but Hanks stepped up and got the funding started for the museum.
I know Hanks is a major lefty, but the people involved in the scenes for both HBO series, swear by what he did and they aint Democrats. It was established 2000. but it wasn’t being built until Hanks got involved due to Band of Brothers.