siege of the U.S. Capitol by his frothing mob of supporters on January 6, revealed serious flaws in the Constitution. For all their brilliance, the framers could not foresee the betrayal by the 21st-century Republican Party of the democratic ideals embodied in our founding document.
The idea that representatives elected to our first branch of government could turn toward autocracy to preserve power was unthinkable to men who had just fought for freedom from a distant monarch.