When you lose an election, you lose the ability to control policy. Trump, Carson and most Republicans are against public housing in principle. They think taxpayers should not have to pay rent for people who don't or can't pay their own rent. Carson is not really outside the mainstream on this.

I don't actually see the problem with "I would not advocate putting a Muslim in charge of the country." I don't see that it's substantially different from "I would not advocate putting Donald Trump in charge of the country." In fact, I would not advocate putting Donald Trump in charge of the country, but I accept that the electorate disagreed with me.

I don't have a problem with "Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," either. I don't see that it's a lot different from "Paul Revere rode to Lexington and Concord to alert the colonial militia that the Redcoats were coming." (In fact, Paul Revere was arrested on his way out of town and spent the night in the slammer.)