Dale always came off as an anti-government nut - but not necessarily a right wing one. I don’t recall him ever mentioned Democrats or Republicans. I think he thought of both sides as “wings on the same bird”. I remember him finding kinship with John Redcorn because they both got screwed by the government.
Not sure if I’d consider him an anarchist in the old show, but I could see him embracing something like that in the new one. Hopefully they don’t go full Q-Anon with him or what ever. As you said, “don’t seem nearly as funny or harmless today”.
