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I think they figured a piece of shit like Trump could get in. The part they grossly underestimated was thinking the party would still behave like normal functioning adults, with the ability to check and balance. Unfortunately for us, the whole Republican Party has turned into cult member ghouls.

True visionaries who'd be shocked to learn of semi-automatic weapons and non-wooden dentures.

Which might be downstream from being oblivious to the problem of political parties -- although by the time of Washington's farewell address he was starting to see it, and warn against it.

Some at the Constututional Convention worried about presidents abusing pardons exactly this way. But opponents argued that Congress would step in to prevent it (by eg impeachment).

We had 250 years to iterate!

Is there really an excuse that fits working for this???