Some presidential campaigns fade away quietly under cover of night so deftly that you might not even even notice they're gone — for example, it'll probably be a long, long time before you ever have think about Bobby Jindal again.

But others explode in a dazzling fireworks display, and that might be what we're about to witness with Ben Carson's wild ride. "Collapse," the headlines are all saying, "crisis," "the worst week," and also "five fantastic Thanksgiving meal sides," because things are so shitty with Ben Carson's campaign right now that it's OK to stop worrying about him and start planning next week's menu. (I'm going to be making Sally Lunn rolls and mushroom soup, how about you? Share your favorite Thanksgiving sides in the comments!)

"What the Hell is Going on With Ben Carson?" asks a headline in Rolling Stone. Ben's very bad week started with a shitty interview on Fox News, during which he was unable to name any US allies. That was followed by a New York Times article that quoted one of his advisors as saying, essentially, that Carson is a moron who can't absorb any useful information about foreign policy.

A Carson campaign official responded to the article by claiming that the advisor has nothing to do with the campaign; and then another campaign official said that the first official has nothing to do with the campaign.

Then they tweeted out a map of the United States that nobody noticed depicted New England floating away to Canada, nice work everyone congratulations.

This is on top of all the other nonsense of the last few weeks: weird conspiracy theories about pyramids, made-up facts in his books, the picture of the Bible quote chiseled on the wall of his house from "Poverbs."

None of these things seemed to perturb his supporters, but now that we've decided to be concerned about foreign policy for a moment, Republicans at last seem to be turning on Carson, driven strongly by his foreign policy shortcomings. Among Republicans, 71% say that he's the most vulnerable when it comes to foreign policy. (Among Democrats, 62% say Sanders is the most vulnerable, which sounds about right.)

At this rate, it probably doesn't even matter that the Carson campaign just appointed a new chairman who has a history of opposing the Civil Rights Act and burning crosses.

Or that Carson just compared the Syrian refugees to rabid dogs.

After Ben Carson melts into a puddle of good, Ted Cruz will probably get to pick at his leftovers. Dismayed Carson supporters will probably manage to get it up again when they hear about Cruz's call to get 10 million more evangelicals voting, or his frequent trips to Liberty University, or his appeals to the Tea Party.

In other words, Cruz is not terribly different from Carson. Just slightly more palatable to idiots.