Four months later, Singh was at a rec centre in Brampton, hosting one of his regular events, also known as JagMeet and Greets. He wore a three-piece black suit paired with a marigold-hued turban that matched his campaign posters. As Singh stood in front of the crowd, testing his microphone, a woman in jeans and a messy ponytail approached him. "We know you're in bed with Sharia!" she barked. "We know you're in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood! We know by your votes!" Her name was Jennifer Bush, and she had attended anti-Muslim protests. Singh is Sikh, not Muslim, but that didn't stop Bush. Though he projected an Obamanian chill, inside he was panicking. "My immediate thought was, 'There's no way a tape of a Caucasian heckler and a turbaned bearded man is gonna look good,' " Singh told me recently. "It makes me look like the Other. It makes me look like there's something wrong with me." He ignored Bush and broke into a chant: "What do we believe in? Love and courage! Love and courage!" Soon the audience was cheering along with him, drowning out the heckler. A video of the incident soon went viral, racking up hundreds of thousands of views. Singh's serene response—and seemingly spontaneous mantra—earned online support from BuzzFeed, CNN's Jake Tapper and the actor Jessica Chastain. His slogan was inspiring thousands of idealists across the country.