Curb Your Enthusiasm: Conservatives freaking out about Larry David have themselves to blame.

As HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm nears the end of its much-celebrated 12-season run, capping a quarter-century of creator Larry David’s fictionalized self-portrayal as a quick-to-anger misanthrope, a curious derangement seems to have gripped a certain subset of the show’s viewers. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, always happy to defend the worst legislation from her home state, tweeted that the “episode lied and painted GA conservatives and Trump supporters as racists and red necks and made fun of our good new law that stops the Stacey Abrams vote pandering machine and prevents voter fraud.” The conspiratorial congresswoman wasn’t alone in responding: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger penned a snarky response to David after a Curb-loving aide asked his boss to defend the law. Most notorious, perhaps, was David’s recent appearance on Chris Wallace’s talk show, where he denounced Donald Trump as a “sociopath” and a “sick man.” Far-right pundit Charlie Kirk commented that “ever since Donald Trump came on the scene, Larry David is not as happy of a person as he once was.” If that incoherent take proved anything, it’s that Kirk may finally be catching up to how right-leaning fans of David’s have felt ever since Trump hosted Saturday Night Live and earned a “Trump’s a racist!” jab from the comedian. Related From Slate The Problem With Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Final Season Just look back to Curb’s second season, which debuted just weeks after 9/11 and displays Larry conspicuously reading a copy of Closed Chambers, a 1998 book that blamed conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist for overseeing a Supreme Court that “discard judicial philosophy and consistent interpretation in favor of bottom-line results.” Or to Season 4’s “The Surrogate,” where Larry refers to famed progressive outlet the Nation as a “fabulous magazine.” Or to that season’s finale, where Larry turns down the opportunity to have sex with a Producers castmate because she’s a Republican with a massive framed photo of George W. Bush in her dressing room. Related From Slate This Curb Your Enthusiasm Episode Encapsulates What Makes the Show So Much Fun It was perhaps easier for right-wingers to brush aside Curb’s liberal markers when they could ignore David’s anti-Bush op-eds and otherwise appreciate moments when Larry pretended to be conservative to get into a country club, tried to categorize “anti-bald prejudice” as a hate crime, or got accused of racism because he fired a Black repairman who was actually rather incompetent.