Will Democrats Be Able To Mentally Handle A Trump Victory?

The race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is tightening in the final stretches, so there’s a question Americans must ask themselves: Should Trump eke out a victory, will Democrats be able to mentally handle it?

The short answer is probably not, and prominent Democrats only have themselves to blame for continuing to spread unhinged propaganda about Trump’s plot to end American democracy and enslave women, even in the wake of two assassination attempts on the former president. Harris stoked the kind of irrational fear that could set off a full-blown mental health crisis among her constituents in a telling exchange during her town hall Tuesday with host Charlamagne Tha God.

A caller during Charlamagne tha God’s town-hall worries that Trump will put “anyone who doesn’t look white into camps.”

Harris replies, “you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect–to make you scared.”

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 15, 2024

A caller told the show he was worried Trump would put people of color into gulag-style camps if he wins in November.

“Hi, I’m Bobby from Georgia, and I have a question for Kamala Harris,” the caller began. “Could you please respond to Trump’s claim that he’s going to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to round up immigrants if he wins the election? This law was last used to put Asian Americans in internment camps during World War II, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if Trump wins, he’s going to use this law to put anyone that doesn’t look white in camps, and I’m scared.”

“You’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think, so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect — to make you scared,” Harris replied in a moment of sheer projection. “He is running full-time on a campaign that is about instilling fear. Not about hope, not about optimism, not about the future, but about fear, and so this is yet another example.”

Rather than showing a modicum of integrity and honesty in a moment that was all but crying out for it, Harris told this presumably low-information voter that yes, his fears about being tossed into a gulag because he isn’t white are valid. Never mind that Trump plans to deport illegal immigrants who broke the law: You, Bobby, are on the verge of a decade of hard labor in a federal prison camp erected in some God-forsaken part of the United States, all because you are not white. (Click HERE to sign up for Mr. Right’s weekly newsletter)

Let’s assume that at least a third of all Democrats are as untethered from reality as Bobby from Georgia. We’re looking at tens of millions of Americans who are going to wake up the morning after Election Day harboring fears that the Trump Administration’s Gestapo is going to barge through their door, drag them out into an unmarked van and disappear them for life.

Now, let’s look at how a supposedly smart, urbane, informed liberal elite, someone like Bill Maher, is reacting to a potential second Trump presidency (even though Maher himself doesn’t think Trump will win).

“He’s insane, so he could start sending people to Guantanamo Bay. I don’t put anything past this guy,” he said. “He thinks they’re eating the cats and the dogs, but am I going to worry about it? First of all, I’m not going to worry about it, Phil, because he’s not going to win,” Maher recently told Dr. Phil.

Bill Maher, Mr. Rational Centrist, is talking about Trump shipping off Americans to Guantanamo Bay as if he’s some right-wing dictator? Uh-oh.

If these sorts of deluded fantasies are any indicator of how the left will handle a Trump win, Democrats are barreling toward a mental health boondoggle post-Election Day. What do you think will happen to all those Millennial and Gen Z women — many of whom were already struggling with anxiety, depression and substance abuse — who were programmed for a year that Trump will crush their human rights if he reclaims power in the White House? Nothing good, I will tell you that.

It might be wise and prudent for top elected officials, in both parties, to dial down the fear porn just a little bit so that their fellow Americans don’t suffer a mass, stress-induced aneurysm when their preferred candidate loses. Maybe then the country will be able to crawl out of this toxic sludge of conspiracy and paranoia and have a productive, civic discussion.