Harvard psychiatrist fears Trump's mental state has crossed into dangerous 'new terrain'

A Harvard psychiatrist has issued a dire new warning about former President Donald Trump's mental state.

In an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall, Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Psychiatry Leonard Glass argued that Trump's recent rhetoric echoing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, such as describing his opponents as "vermin," shows he's ready to go even farther in crushing the norms of American democracy than he did in his first term.

"If Trump — in adopting language that he cannot help knowing replicates that of Hitler (especially the references to opponents as “vermin” and “poisoning the blood of our country”), we have to wonder if he has crossed into 'new terrain,'" Glass said. "That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed act like the authoritarians he praises."

Glass then warned that Trump will populate his second administration with yes-men who will not push back against any of his most violent impulses, which could lead to many dark scenarios unfolding.

"Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is 'the only one' and the one, some believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt," he writes to Edsall.