I found the article good even though it did kinda touch me in the tender spots since in some ways I was once the South Park Republican and now a Daily Show Democrat. Overall, I really have no clue what to think about the whole thing. People with brains are pretty much split, so far

Part of me finds the rally awesome, Jon and Steve are stepping their games in the best way they can, and that naysayers are missing the forest for the trees by blaming superficialities. OTOH, part of me thinks that non-militant strategies are doomed to failure and due to playing softball we're aiding and abetting our own generations' collective shift to the right and authoritarianism just as the previous few generations have unwittingly done so.