Trump also is a big fan of eminent domain — the process by which the government confiscates someone’s property because it thinks it has a better use for it. He once tried to use eminent domain to seize the home of an elderly widow so he could build a limousine parking lot. Nice.

Der Donald also wants to build a wall on the southern border — “a great, great wall” — and he will make Mexico pay for it. How will he do that, exactly? As with everything else Trump proposes, details are fuzzy.

But Mexicans aren’t the only thing Trump wants to keep out of the country. He promises to enact “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” That would rival FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans not only in scale but also in the degree to which it lacks any legal, constitutional, or even rational justification.

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