It’s now very like what the Anti-federalists said it would be.
But it took a devastating civil war, and IMO a consolidated national media to pervert it so. And yet there’s still some of the design that perseveres and allows hope.
Well, a nation can go venal in a lot of ways. We can’t blame a constitution for the abuse thereof.
In any case, our present America is far from the quite laissez-faire institution it used to be.
I don’t waste tears hankering for what used to be, which doubtless had drawbacks as well as advantages. The worst evils don’t even come from on earth, but from off earth. And ultimate salvation definitely comes from off earth.