America has a mental health problem. The Boston Globe reported this week on a “mental health crisis in Rhode Island schools.” A Lafayette, Louisiana, news outlet reported on a “mental health crisis” in the state’s jails. In the upper Midwest, a handful of American Indian tribes claim social media is causing mental health problems among tribal children. Worrisome as these and other reports are, things could get exponentially worse.

One analysis of what may lie ahead comes from former ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin. During an October 15 interview with Tucker Carlson, Halperin was asked how Democrats might react in the event Donald Trump wins a second term. “I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” predicted Halperin.


He was not being snarky or facetious. Halperin said he was “100 percent serious,” and went on to say, “I don’t think it will be 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.” This mental health crisis will be marked by “alcoholism, broken marriages… workplace fights, fights at kids' birthday parties,” and possibly worse.

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