Lincoln. His legacy of a gargantuan Federal government far outside the boundaries the framers envisioned is the disaster we are all still dealing with today. Your concern over the Federal Reserve was inevitable with the Government Lincoln left behind.
“Lincoln...”
Yes, you could make a case for Lincoln. I am very conflicted about him because I think he was fundamentally a good and brilliant man trying to do what he thought was right.
That being said, you could argue that his prosecution of the war killed the country that our Founding Fathers envisioned and set us on the course to Empire and where we are today.
As brilliant as the Founders were, it seems they made a huge mistake not including a session clause for the political entities that entered into the Constitutional Compact.