Hundreds of thousands turned out on Saturday to Comedy Central talk showhosts, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, three days before elections, although organizers insisted the Rally wasn’t about politics.
The crowds were festive, goofy, disillusioned with the state of politics if not the nation, and ready to play nice at a gathering called as a counterweight to all the shouting and flying insults of these polarized times. But there were political undertones, too, pushing back against conservatives ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Slogans urged people to “relax.” But also: “Righties, don’t stomp on my head,” a reference to a Republican rally in Kentucky at which a liberal activist was pulled to the ground and stepped on. And, “I wouldn’t care if the president was Muslim.”
