On his radio broadcast this morning, Glenn Beck continued his incoherent attempt to explain away his comment from yesterday that he was not sure that Ted Cruz would be able to govern if he were elected president, claiming now that what he was saying is that only President Ted Cruz will be able to save America when it inevitably descends into martial law sometime in the next eight years.

“The world is about to change,” Beck stated. “Mark my words, this next presidency, we will see martial law … In this next presidency, we will see martial law, either regionally or across the entire country, I don’t know. But you will see martial law because there’s going to be a breakdown of the system.”

“Now there is two ways that this goes,” he continued. “Either the system breaks down and we go into martial law, the government closes the banks, we do what we did in the Great Depression and there are riots on the street and so we have to have martial law and it’s a complete crackdown and you never get your freedoms back. Or we’re better people and we do what Americans have always done and that is unite in times of crisis. I don’t which way it’s going to go.”

Saying that it is important to have a “constitutionalist” in power when this societal breakdown comes, Beck said, “I want Ted Cruz because I believe we are going to face tough times and we may go into martial law and I want somebody that will take that and with a velvet hand, put uprisings down if we have them and then let the hand off and restore our freedoms again”: