Political analyst Mark Halperin has a warning. If Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5, unhinged madness — among Trump opponents — will ensue.
In a two-hour sit-down with Tucker Carlson, Halperin predicted the “greatest mental health crisis” in the nation’s history if Trump sends Harris back to California.
Halperin even predicted workplace fisticuffs and parents’ throwing punches during kids’ birthday parties.
Another prognostication: Trump will win a record share of the black men’s vote.
Crazy Times Coming
Carlson asked the former political director of ABC News how Democrats would respond to a Trump victory, given that for them, “Trump becoming president again is the worst thing that could ever happen.”
“I say this not flippantly,” Halperin began:
I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings, their connection to their vision of what the future for them and their children could be like. I think it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace.
And Halperin wasn’t kidding, when Carlson followed up.
Indeed, he’s “100 percent serious,” he continued. Halperin predicted alcoholism and “broken marriages” because hate-Trump voters “think he’s the worst person possible to be president.”
The Left is furious that the FBI found Trump innocent of any Russian “collusion,” a falsehood manufactured by Hillary Clinton’s campaign; that he denied that Joe Biden won in 2020; and about the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020.
“The fact that under a fair election, America chose by the pre-agreed rules Donald Trump again — I think it will cause the biggest mental health crisis in the history of America,” Halperin continued:
And I don’t think it will be kind of a passing thing that, by the inauguration, we’ll be fine. I think it will be sustained, unprecedented, and hideous. And I don’t think the country’s ready for it.
Halperin predicted “violence,” including violent protests, “workplace fights,” and “fights at kids’ birthday parties.”
But anger won’t be the prime mover of what Halperin thinks will be a nationwide meltdown among hate-Trump Americans.
Impossible to Fathom
“I think it will be less anger and more a failure to understand how it could happen. You know, like the death of a child, or … your wife announcing she’s a lesbian and she’s leaving you for your best friend,” Halperin said:
Like something that’s so traumatic, that it’s impossible for even the most mentally healthy person to truly process and incorporate into their daily life.
I hope I’m wrong. But I think that’s what’s going to happen for tens of millions of people because they think that their fellow citizens’ supporting Trump is a sign of fundamental evil at the heart of their fellow citizens and of the nation. That’s how they view it.
If Trump loses, Halperin predicted, anti-Harris voters will react negatively, but not the way that Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers will.
“[T]here’ll be all sorts of things” to make Trump voters think something stinks:
Lawfare, replacing Biden with her after Trump had spent millions trying to beat Biden, the media [putting] its full body on the scale. I think all those things will lead to mass skepticism that the election was fair. And I think it’ll be up to luck that the result is clear-cut enough that people don’t feel reflexively it was unfair.
Battleground state governors, he said, must be transparent about “any irregularities and their potential impact on the outcome.”
Halperin predicted that Republicans might take the Senate, and said that “people have failed to game out the possibility of a Republican Senate, Democratic House, and Democratic president”:
All of MAGA, and those unhappy with [Harris] 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. And 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.
Carlson then turned to the ugly prospect of a post-election civil war.
“I don’t dismiss it,” Halperin said, noting that “civil conflict will take place in the state of some governor, by definition.”
But the governors must have “great bipartisan plans for minimizing this, and for policing peaceful protests, and not allowing them to escalate, but not trampling on the First Amendment,” he continued:
I think we could have violence regardless of who wins. I think both sides are capable of that. I think the chances of it are minimized if the losing presidential candidate makes it clear they don’t want that to happen, and if the governors are vigilant in devising plans to balance public safety with the First Amendment. If those things happen, I’m not all that concerned about violence. If those things don’t happen, I’m deeply concerned about it.
Black Men for Trump, Battleground Predictions
Yet Halperin also believes that Trump is set to get the biggest black men’s vote of any Republican nominee.
Two black men appeared on Halperin’s podcast and “explained extraordinarily well why they’re for Trump and why they don’t like the Democratic party.”
“If the anecdotal [evidence] is even close to true, Trump will break the record among support from black men,” Halperin said:
I mean, he’ll smash it if the anecdotal is close to true. It’s all over social media, it’s all over my platform, it’s all over every story I hear. …
When Trump says some young black men identify with him and their parents because he’s been persecuted, the press says that’s racist. My experience is it’s just true. They get the fact that the legal system comes after people unfairly. And if it can happen to Trump, it can happen to them. …
These young black men say the Democratic party offers nothing to me. Trump might offer something to me and he’s done criminal justice reform.
Halperin said Harris’ most likely victory among the seven battleground states is Nevada, but that Trump has a slim chance of winning there. Arizona is “Trump’s best of the seven,” and Trump is the favorite in Georgia. Sources tell Halperin that Trump will win North Carolina.
Harris is ahead in Wisconsin, but in Michigan she has problems with black men and the labor unions. “It’s a must-win” for Harris, he said.
Trump is “consistently ahead” in Pennsylvania, and Democratic sources tell Halperin that he is the favorite to win.
Halperin recently predicted that Harris might lose six of seven.
H/T: RealClearPolitics
