They may have meant it maliciously, but I took it more as just pointing out the group of people most likely to get it. Older millennials like myself get it too, as I’m sure some genz and gena get also, but due to the song coming out when I was 2, I’d expect genx in general to be more familiar.
Yeah, this theory can be funny, but it completely ignores how the Kochs and John Birch Society, among many others, have been trying to “take back” the country since… well civil war at least if you include the KKK and south. Though more since FDR. They have been planning, shifting the Overton window, and trying every little thing they can. They even freaked out about Timothy McVeigh a bit, thinking he set them back by exposing the general secretly violent right wing by going so public, iirc.