Glenn Beck turns out let's be generous and say 100,000 last week on the Mall.
He gives an incoherent speech about faith and God and America and the trouble we're in.
The crowd praises the Lord and says America is the last hope and we need to take our country back.
They complain about illegal immigrants at a time when illegal immigration is at record lows.
They complain about these same immigrants not learning English, even though immigrants today are assimilating at the same pace as their predecessors.
They complain about Obama and the Dems spending out of control, but in the next breath complain that not enough is being done to get Americans back to work.
Less than 2 years after the GOP led the economy off the cliff, Americans seem poised to give the GOP another chance, eve though they don't have an idea how to get the economy going again.
They deny climate physics that CO2 is a greenhouse gas pollutant.
They shut down stem cell research to protect precious embryos that will now be destroyed without providing life-saving science.
They want to do away with Social Security and Medicare, and still the are leading in the polls.
They want to complain about the deficit they mostly created while simultaneously advancing budget-busting tax cuts for millionaires.
Logic and reason are never pure. They can be perverted to justify nasty and heinous crimes against humanity.
That said, it is very hard to see how so many people can be so divorced from the basic foundation of a democratic form of government.