The way right-wing-media personality Glenn Beck sees it, no matter who wins the election, Donald or Hillary, he's done for, gone, kaput, along with all that he has built since leaving Fox News in 2011 – his websites (TheBlaze and Glennbeck.com), his radio show (The Glenn Beck Radio Program), his live-streamed online network, his status as a bestselling author in four genres (latest nonfiction hit – Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control). Last year, Forbes put his corporate revenue at around $90 million. After November 8th, that, too, would presumably take a giant hit, maybe force him to sell his beloved $200,000 Mercedes-Maybach or his private jet or perhaps the stuffed life-size polar bear that overlooks his office for no discernible reason. In fact, his many enemies in both conservative- and liberal-media camps are already front-running the end, churning out copy with headlines like "Glenn Beck Empire Is Officially Collapsing" and "Glenn Beck's Blaze Empire Continues Its Decline," the stories buttressed with tales of mass layoffs at his various businesses, rapidly declining Web traffic, plummeting ad sales, outside offices being shuttered and side ventures needing to be scuttled. And a good bit of this presumably because of his failure to fall in line and support Donald Trump – the way so many of his right-wing brothers have.

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With those days well past, he uncrosses his legs and leans forward. Worst-case scenario, he says, here's how his demise after the election might come to pass.

"I could see us going into a greater depression," he says, "a collapse of the Western economy, chaos, shootings on the street from Islamic terrorism, shortages, bank failures, and in that kind of situation, as any strongman knows, the first thing you have to do is get a hold of the media. So, how do you think that ends for someone like me, because I am not shutting up?"

He's told his kids, jokingly, he says, that no matter who the new president is, they shouldn't be surprised if their dad winds up behind bars, but it's not Hillary he's worried about in this regard so much as it is Trump.

"Hillary is big-government, fundamentally unable to tell the truth and, I mean, she's just criminal, but Donald is a pathological liar, possibly a sociopath, and a vengeful, bitter man if he feels he's been betrayed at all." Or slighted in any way, which puts Beck right in the crosshairs. He has equated Trump with Mussolini and Hitler. Earlier this year, to simulate Trump's grotesque golden skin, he donned a pair of swim goggles and plopped his face into a bowl of ground-up Cheetos, which led to universal ridicule, much concern, facetious and otherwise, about his mental health, and to him saying today, "Oh, my gosh, the biggest mistake I've made in five years. It just wasn't funny. Wow. It sucked."

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So, does that actually mean he'd rather Hillary win?

"If I did, do you think I'd tell you?" Long pause. Then: "I don't know what happened to Donald Trump as a child, but I think he's extraordinarily unstable."

What does he think is the worst thing a President Trump could do during his first 90 days in office?

"Serve," Beck says, glumly. "Show up."