His strength is that the Evangelicals know in their hearts that they've been played by the GOP for fools for decades ever since they were identified and courted as a voting block. Carson believes what thy believe and with his grandfatherly presence and soft-spoken style he can be straight up about those beliefs without being scary. When he says things like he would ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest he does it in such a way that he somehow sounds perfectly reasonable.
"I would not be in favor of killing a baby because the baby came about in that way,” Mr. Carson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” citing “the many stories of people who have led very useful lives who were the result of rape or incest.”
He also told Chuck Todd that he's a "reasonable person and that he'd listen if someone can come up with a "reasonable explanation for why they would like to kill a baby".
Good luck arguing with that, folks.
I interpret his calm as not drug induced but that of a man who truly believes he is on a mission from God. Think of some of those insipid movies about Jesus, how he has this air of unearthly calm around him even while the Pharisees are hailing words and the Romans are hailing worse at him. Now the Jesus who actually emerges from the New Testament was something of a master of what we today would call snark, especially when it came to the rich and on at least one occasion totally lost it and drove the money changers from the temple with a home made whip but that's not the Jesus most evangelicals would recognize.
The problem is leaders who are non a mission from God are not a good match for a secular Democracy--in fact they are absolutely frightening.
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