Tucker Carlson invited journalist Mark Halperin on his show to predict what the post-election future for America might look like, and he was horrified by what he heard.
Halperin, the author of several books on the US elections and currently a Newsmax reporter, told Carlson that it could result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris.
“I think it will be the cause of the biggest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” he said, adding that liberals would question their “connection to the nation” and suffer “trauma in the workplace.”
Carlson, stunned, responded: ‘Are you serious?’
Halperin confirmed he was “100% serious” before making even more dire predictions about a second Trump term.
Tucker Carlson invited journalist Mark Halperin on his show to predict what the post-election future could be like for the United States and was horrified by what he told him.
Halperin, the author of several books on the US elections and currently a Newsmax reporter, told Carlson that it could result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris.
‘I think there will be alcoholism, broken marriages… yes. “They think he is the worst possible person to be president,” he said.
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats could handle Trump winning because of “a fluke” in 2016, but that a Trump win fair and square would ruin their psyches.
He then predicted violence everywhere, from protests to average everyday interactions between Americans.
“I think there will be fights in the workplace, fights at kids’ birthday parties, I think there will be protests that will turn violent. I hope they don’t, but I think there will be some,” Halperin said.
Carlson then wondered how conservatives could handle Harris defeating Trump in November.
“I think the negative impact of his victory on the psychology of the losers won’t be that big, but I don’t think it will be anything. “I think there will be all kinds of things: lawfare, replacing Biden with it after Trump spent millions trying If we beat Biden, the media will put their whole body on the scale,” he said.
He added that it will likely “depend on Trump’s attitude” and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent about how their MAGA base will react to a hypothetical Harris victory.
“If all that happens and Kamala Harris decides to be nice in the transition, in her inaugural address and in her legislative agenda, I think we could be in a decent place,” he said.
He added that it will likely “depend on Trump’s attitude” and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent about how their MAGA base will react to a hypothetical Harris victory.
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats could handle Trump winning because of “a fluke” in 2016, but that a Trump win fair and square would ruin their psyches.
Carlson pivoted to another potentially realistic possibility: What if America elected Kamala Harris and the Democrats to take over the House of Representatives but also a Republican Senate?
“All the MAGA, and those unhappy with her victory, will put their chips in the Senate and say that it is up to the Senate to prevent her from turning this country into a far-left country,” he theorized.
“That refers to nominations, I think it will be very difficult for her to nominate someone acceptable to the left who is confirmed by the Senate… You can’t be acting forever, it’s very limited. What you can do as acting secretary .
Halperin says he doesn’t think there will be a civil war in reaction to the election, but he doesn’t rule out the possibility.
‘I hope all governors have great bipartisan plans to minimize this, control peaceful protests and not allow them to escalate without trampling on the First Amendment. I think we could have violence regardless of who wins. “I think both parties are capable of doing it,” he said.
Halperin is not the first person to suggest there could be violence after the election.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden warned of the possibility that the fallout from the election could be violent, when asked whether it would be free and fair, as well as peaceful.
Trump’s ‘enemy within’ line can be traced back to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. McCarthy invoked an unnamed historical figure and said, “When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be by enemies without, but by enemies within.”
Abraham Lincoln spoke in his Lyceum speech in 1838 about internal threats to the republic a generation before the Civil War, during a period of increasing collective violence. “At what point can danger be expected to approach? I answer, if it ever comes to us, it must arise between us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction is our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live for all time or die by suicide.
He was asked if he was confident that the elections would be free, fair and peaceful.
Biden said they were “two separate questions.”
‘I am sure it will be free and fair. I don’t know if it will be peaceful,’ he responded.
