The Founding Fathers fought for freedom that future generations of American (especially in recent decades) have failed to preserve/maintain, hence my use of “eventually.”
this is saying they planned to eventually be ruled by home-grown autocrats... which they did not... that America is becoming that has nothing to do with what they originally fought for... FREEDOM like no other country had ever offered... better wording would be: fighting for freedom that eventually turned to rule by home-grown autocrats... that was a possibility from the beginning, but not what they fought for... not at all what they intended...