I think Ben Carson and Donald Trump are both a product of the ideas that the Republican Party has promoted over the past couple of decades: "Government IS the problem." "Government can't do anything right."
Neither one has ever been elected to any public office, and this fits the idea because if they had been elected, then they would be "politicians", another Tea Party suspect class.
Neither one of them has any experience working within an organization with complex rules like the executive branch, or working with a contentious institution like Congress. If elected they would be totally incompetent, probably getting impeached within the first year.
Their candidacies may be the ultimate Republican threat to shut down the government.
