"The presidency will survive. The real question is what leads American presidents into the imperial temptation. When the American presidency conceives itself as the appointed savior of a world in which mortal danger requires rapid and incessant deployment of men, weapons, and decisions behind a wall of secrecy, power rushes from Capitol Hill to the White House."—Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

I'm not a fan of Communist China.

It's a vicious totalitarian regime that routinely employs censorship, surveillance, and brutal police state tactics to intimidate its populace, maintain its power, and expand the largesse of its corporate elite.

Just recently, in fact, China banned the use of the word "disagree," as well as references to George Orwell's novels Animal Farm and 1984. What's really Orwellian, however, is China's plan to use surveillance to create a "citizen score" that determines one's place in society based on one's loyalty to the government.

China—an economic and political powerhouse that owns more of America's debt than any other country and is buying up American businesses across the spectrum— now plans to make its president, Xi Jinping, president for life.

President Trump thinks that's a great idea.

Trump thinks the idea of having a president for life is so great, in fact, that America might want to move in that direction. "Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday," said Trump to a roomful of supporters.

Here's the thing: we already have a president for life.