To CharlieHall’s snide remark “The new mainstream of the Republican Party is as bad as the new UK Labour leader. Really.”.
So what’ wrong with Dr. Carson? His views on social and economic issues mesh closely with what most Orthodox Jews feels. And as a member of a small religious minority you don’t have to worry about the Church-State issues one encounters with groups such as mainstream Protestants, Catholics and Mormons. While he’s currently only in second place among Republicans, its apparent he’s the second choice of almost everyone other than Trump supporters, and combined with the fact that 2/3 of Republicans see Trump as unelectable, and no other Republican has even 10% support (Carson has well over 20 %), the face of the mainstream Republicans is a soft spoken retired African American (meaning his ancestors were slaves, unlike Obama who is desended from slave owners) Adventist.
The US equivalent of the new UK Labor leaders is Bernie Sanders, who is now in first place in the early primary states.