Tucker Carlson invited journalist Mark Halperin on his show to predict what the post-election future could look like for America and was horrified by what he heard.
Halperin, an author of several books about American elections and currently a reporter for Newsmax, told Carlson it may result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris.
‘I think it will be the cause of the greatest 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, flabbergasted, responded: ‘Are you being serious?’
Halperin confirmed he was ‘100% serious’ before making even more dire predictions of a second Trump term.
Tucker Carlson invited journalist Mark Halperin on his show to predict what the post-election future could look like for America and was horrified by what he told him
Halperin, an author of several books about American elections and currently a reporter for Newsmax, told Carlson it may result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris
‘I think there’ll be alcoholism, broken marriages… yeah. They think he’s the worst person possible to be president,’ he said.
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats could stomach Trump having won due to ‘a fluke’ in 2016 but that Trump winning fair and square would ruin their psyches.
He then predicted violence everywhere from protests to average, everyday interactions between Americans.
‘I think there’ll be workplace fights, 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 might handle Harris defeating Trump in November.
‘I think the negative impact of her winning on the psychology of the losers will not be as great, but I don’t think it’ll be nothing. I think there’ll be all sorts of things — lawfare, replacing Biden with her after Trump had spent millions trying to beat Biden, the media putting its full body on the scale,’ he said.
He added that it will probably ‘be up to Trump’s attitude’ and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent how his MAGA base react to a hypothetical Harris victory.
‘If all that happens, and Kamala Harris decides to be gracious 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 probably ‘be up to Trump’s attitude’ and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent how his MAGA base react to a hypothetical Harris victory
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats could stomach Trump having won due to ‘a fluke’ in 2016 but that Trump winning fair and square would ruin their psyches
Carlson pivoted to another, potentially realistic, possibility: what if America picks Kamala Harris and Democrats to take over the House of Representatives but also a Republican Senate?
‘All of MAGA, and those unhappy with her winning, will put their chips in the Senate and say it’s up to the Senate to keep her from turning this into a far-left country,’ he theorized.
‘That goes to nominations, I think it will be very difficult for her to nominate anyone acceptable to the left that will be confirmed by the Senate… You can’t be acting forever, it is very limited –what you can do as an acting secretary.’
Halperin says he doesn’t think there’s going to be a civil war in reaction to the election but isn’t dismissive of the possibility.
‘I hope the governors all have great bipartisan plans for minimizing this, for policing peaceful protests, and not allowing them to escalate while not trampling on the First Amendment. I think we could have violence regardless of who wins. I think both sides are capable of that,’ he said.
Halperin isn’t the first person to suggest there could be violence after the election.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden warned of the potential that the aftermath of the election could be violent, when asked if it would be free and fair, as well as peaceful.
He was asked whether he was confident the election would be free and fair and whether it would be peaceful.
Biden said those were ‘two separate questions.’
‘I’m confident it will be free and fair. I don’t know whether it’ll be peaceful,’ he responded.
Trump’s ‘enemy within’ line can trace itself to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the red scare. McCarthy invoked an unidentified historical figure and said, ‘When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from 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 growing mob violence.
‘At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.’