That’s well known journalist and a guy who leans Democrat, Mark Halperin, during an interview with Tucker Carlson and it’s part of an incredible response to a Carlson question:

Carlson: “Let’s say Trump wins three weeks from today, what happens? As you’ve said, a lot of Democrats, maybe the majority, believe that Trump becoming President again is the worst thing that could happen. So, how do they respond to that?” 

Halperin: “I say this not flippantly. 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 their future for them and their children could be like. I think that it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace. I think there’ll be some degree of protests.”

Carlson: “Are you being serious?”

Halperin: “One hundred percent serious…..Because they think that their fellow citizens supporting Trump is a sign of fundamental evil at the heart of their fellow citizens and the nation.

The New York Times gives a taste of this with their own uncomprehending take on why Trump is winning when he should be losing, as they try to explain to their “Liberal” readers:

In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists and falsely claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Eight years later, the polls suggest that he might well return to the White House by faring better among Black and Hispanic voters combined than any Republican presidential nominee since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Trump is of course well aware of this phenomenon.

Trump:
“I do say this, though—it is nastier to run as a Republican in this… Now I’m the ultimate, you know, I mean… They suffer from a thing called “TDS.” Do you know what that is? TDS. It’s a horrible, horrible terminal disease. It destroys the mind, it destroys the mind before the body, but the body eventually goes. TDS is Trump Derangement Syndrome.”