“I think they never realized we would be so polarized that members of the president’s party would not vote against him for ANY reason.....”
Really? You are questioning if the founders had realized that such staunch divisions could exist? After they were so polarized as to actually take up arms to overthrow their government?
They did take up arms to over throw their government... but it is also true that they had no representation in their government. I’m not sure they suspected that a president might subvert the constitution, clearly subvert the constitution, and that members of his own party would be so tied to re-election funding that they would vote lockstep and barrel with him, no matter what he did. I do not think they anticipated the billions of dollars it would take to win an election and the extreme power the money and the corrupt press would have on the process.
They did take up arms to over throw their government... but it is also true that they had no representation in their government. I’m not sure they suspected that a president might subvert the constitution, clearly subvert the constitution, and that members of his own party would be so tied to re-election funding that they would vote lockstep and barrel with him, no matter what he did. I do not think they anticipated the billions of dollars it would take to win an election and the extreme power the money and the corrupt press would have on the process.
I also don’t think they anticipated that congress would be writing 2,000 page bills and passing them without even reading them. Passing them just because the leader of their party put pressure on them to do so. And more importantly, that the voting public would be so polarized that they would continue to elect these jerks anyway.