People have monuments and shrines and stuff all the time, so part of it isn't that weird. It would still be weird how people are treating it though. Taking selfies and shit. It's like the dumbest, most non-self aware people's hot takes, crystallized and evolved into a political party.

But if you believe what he was doing was right, and actually listened to him "debate (uncomfortable public verbal conflict logically) is good", then a public selfie under the tent does make a lot more sense.

Unfortunately for them, THEY are the ones that need the growth, but treat it as a sneaky way to proliferate "values" and "ideas" in a really messed up little chapel. Spreading your worldview under a tent is as old as history, all religions basically do it. So it probably felt holy to a lot of stupid people.