Is it really failure by their standards? How many of them owned slaves? How many of them viewed women as essentially property?
Is it really failure by their standards? How many of them owned slaves? How many of them viewed women as essentially property?
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I mean, I think they’d have considered a civil war less than 100 years after the founding of the country to be a pretty good indication of failure.
As for the modern world, they explicitly talk about trying to design a system so that a tyrant doesn’t become president. All the supposed checks and balances that were supposed to prevent that turned out to be as effective as wet tissue paper. The founders also cared a lot about the president not being corrupt, and drafted the emoluments clause(s) to prevent that, and Trump has just completely ignored those clauses. I think they’d have been pretty upset about that, and wondering why the law of the land was just being ignored.