Glenn Beck made an interesting point this morning. The response to this election will tell us if the Democrats are honest, rational people who simply disagree with us on policy, or whether they've become irrational zealots who care about nothing but their radical agenda.
The country has sent a clear message to the leadership in Washington: pull back from the extreme left, come back to the center. If you continue heading in the current direction, we can and will vote you out of office.
If the Democrats are rational, they'll heed the message and respect the will of the people, even if it's only out of a sense of self-preservation. If they're irrational zealots, they'll double down on their agenda and try even harder to force their progressive revolution through before the everything comes undone for them.
Chalk Chris Mathews up in the "irrational zealot" column.