Quick, what does Donald Trump have in common with this guy?

Idi Amin Dada, former "President for Life" of Uganda
and possibly Donald Trump's soul brother

So Donald Trump is now declaring that by executive order, he can undo the 14th Amendment of the United States.

That’s the one that says if you’re born here, you’re a citizen here. No ifs. No buts. No maybes.

Yeah, there are quibblers and legal logic twisters who point out that the language of the 14th Amendment says the parent has to be subject to the jurisdiction of the government. But if the United States government can arrest her, as it has been doing with undocumented immigrants, or separate her from her baby, or throw her or the baby in a cage — all of which Trump has been doing — then that is a clear exercise of jurisdiction, or at least a claim to it. Unless, that is, the Trump administration wants to declare itself guilty of kidnapping of foreign citizens (just like, say, like the Islamic nation of Saudi Arabia) and other felonious acts.

Donald Trump thinks he can end the 14th Amendment by executive order, despite the fact that the Constitution cannot be changed except by a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress, or by a Constitutional Convention called by two thirds of the state legislatures.

If Trump can overrule the U.S. Constitution by a stroke of his own pen, we effectively will have no more constitution. The government, and the law, will be whatever Donald Trump decides it is, subject to any whacko executive order that pops into his head.

At that point, there is no difference between Donald Trump and characters like the late Idi Amin Dada, above. Trump can declare himself President for Life, just like Idi Amin  did. And he can torture and kill anybody who objects, just like Idi Amin  did. And he can support terrorists and hijackers, just like Amin did.

And finally, he can be so inept in his dealings with other countries that he'll get us invaded, just the way Idi Amin got Uganda invaded.

Amin eventually went into exile in Saudi Arabia and finally dropped dead there. But Uganda, decades later, is still a mess.

That's where we're all heading, if we don't put a stop to it. And that's why you'd better get out and vote on Tuesday.