Tucker Carlson stunned by dystopian prediction of what could happen after contentious election
Tucker Carlson invited journalist Mark Halperin onto his show to predict what the post-election future could look like for America, and he was shocked by what he heard.
Halperin, author of several books on US elections and currently a reporter for Newsmax, told Carlson that it could result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris.
“I think this 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 replied, bewildered, “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 onto his show to predict what the post-election future could look like for America, and was shocked by what he told him.
Halperin, author of several books on US elections and currently a reporter for Newsmax, told Carlson that it could result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris.
“I think there will be alcoholism, broken marriages… yes. “They think he’s the worst possible person to be president,” he said.
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats can tolerate the fact that Trump won because of “a fluke” in 2016, but that an honest Trump victory would ruin their psyche.
He then went on to predict 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 not, but I think there will be some,” Halperin said.
Carlson then wondered how conservatives would handle Harris’ victory over Trump in November.
‘I don’t think the negative impact of her victory on the psychology of the losers will be that great, but I don’t think it will be nothing. I think there will be all kinds of things: legal issues, replacing Biden with her after Trump spent millions to defeat Biden, the media putting their whole body on the scales,” he said.
He added that it will likely depend “on Trump’s attitude” and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent about how his MAGA base reacts to a hypothetical Harris win.
“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 likely depend “on Trump’s attitude” and Democrats’ willingness to be transparent about how his MAGA base reacts to a hypothetical Harris win.
The former ABC News reporter said Democrats can tolerate the fact that Trump won because of “a fluke” in 2016, but that an honest Trump victory would ruin their psyche.
Carlson focused on another, potentially realistic possibility: What if America chooses Kamala Harris and the Democrats to take over the House of Representatives, but also a Republican Senate?
“All of MAGA, and those unhappy with her victory, will put their chips in the Senate and say it is up to the Senate to prevent her from turning this into a far-left country,” he theorized.
‘That’s about nominations, I think it will be very difficult for her to nominate someone who is acceptable to the left, which will be confirmed by the Senate… You cannot act forever, it is very limited – what you can do as acting secretary.’
Halperin says he doesn’t think a civil war will break out in response to the election, but doesn’t dismiss the possibility.
“I hope the governors all have great, bipartisan plans to keep this to a minimum, to monitor peaceful protests and not to escalate them without trampling on the First Amendment. I think we can use force no matter who wins. “I think both sides are capable of doing that,” he said.
Halperin is not the first to suggest that violence could occur after the election.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden warned of the potential for the election’s aftermath to be violent when asked whether it would be free, fair and peaceful.
Trump’s “enemy within” line can trace itself back to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. McCarthy invoked an unknown historical figure and said, “If a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be by enemies without, but rather by enemies within.”
Abraham Lincoln, in his 1838 Lyceum address, spoke of internal threats to the republic a generation before the Civil War, during a period of increasing mob violence. ‘At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer: if it ever reaches us, it must emerge among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction is our destiny, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free people, we must survive all the time or we will die by suicide.”
He was asked whether he had confidence that the elections would be free and fair and whether they would be peaceful.
Biden said these were “two separate questions.”
‘I am confident that it will be free and fair. I don’t know if it will be peaceful,” he replied.