No, I don’t think it has anything to do with ‘white guilt.’ There just appears to be, out of the huge well of anti-establishment sentiment, a lot of people who find Trump a bit too abrasive for their tastes. In addition to perhaps being questionable on values/social issues.
I’m rather glad to see Carson the beneficiary of this, as opposed to Huckabee. Cruz might have been (and probably should have been), but I’m guessing he stubbed his toe at the starting gate on a few issues like expanding H-1B, the Corker bill, and Obamatrade, deflating some enthusiasm for him at a crucial moment.
Bingo! We have a winner.
The world is speeding toward a brick wall but we can’t have someone who’s too “abrasive?”
People like you would have slammed Churchill.