OMG! Carson really is nuts

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50. Just watched it

While I've seen quotes of his and heard the take-ways from both here on DU and from my raging RW relatives and their friends, it's actually the first time I've actually heard and watched him speak. I was actually disappointed, to tell the truth, but then again I was expecting Trump-like bombast.

Definitely not presidential material: too snarky and defensive in a way that suggests further furtiveness. The religion angle is damning on its own. As to the snarkiness, see below.

His RW fans ( as other have said, and as I've come to find out ) will view what we see as a meltdown as a righteous "circling of the wagons" and redouble their support for him. They think it's "spunk" in a way to spit water in the face of the world changing around them. It's like they see him as a last stand of the reactionary angry curmudgeon brigade. They regard him ( and/or ) Trump as some sort of last hope. They hate the younger generation. Just what constitutes it is squishy, but they like it that way, so they can modify or pile-on later. They're fucked, but whistle past the graveyard with bravado.