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\n<\/span>s our 80-year-old Mad King goes on midnight social media revenge benders from the White House, attacking the pope after attacking Iran, enriching his family by billions and comparing himself to Jesus, some of his supporters are now panicking and asking, \u201cWho could have seen this coming?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe answer, of course, is any sentient being not blinded by partisanship who lived through the first four years of Trump\u2019s presidency, which included more than 30,000 lies, a mismanaged pandemic that killed a million Americans, and culminated with his attempt to overturn an election on the back of a big lie that led to an attack on our Capitol.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe dangers were so obvious that even the Founding Fathers could see them coming a quarter of a millennium ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe U.S. Constitution was designed to protect the rights of the people against the rise of a would-be tyrant. The founders understood they were embarking on a rebellious project that had never succeeded before. As John Adams scowled, \u201cThere never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.\u201d Their aim was to build a structure that could withstand the forces that destroyed democracies in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat\u2019s why the founders explicitly warned about the dangers of a demagogue, the poison of hyperpartisanship, the corrosive effects of corruption and foreign influence, the politicization of religion, and the erosion of the separation of powers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, by those basic standards, we\u2019re living through the founders\u2019 nightmare. But the right response is not civic despair but a defiant resolve to reclaim American patriotism and fix what\u2019s been broken so that we can strengthen our democracy to survive the next 250 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo skip the saccharine Trump nationalism and \u201cDear Leader\u201d iconography this July 4th. Instead, read the founders\u2019 own words to serve as a North Star in chaotic and divided times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tStart with the Declaration of Independence \u2014 itself an anti-colonial screed against a mad king \u2014 and read through the list of grievances against King George. The echoes are unmistakable: The founders accused him of \u201ccutting off our Trade with all parts of the world\u2009\u2026 He has obstructed the Administration of Justice\u2009\u2026 He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us\u2009\u2026\u2009sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.\u201d Just in case we missed the point, the founders added this line: \u201cA Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tJames Madison and Thomas Jefferson pored through history in an extended document called \u201cNotes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies,\u201d studying the ways that ancient Greek republics collapsed. That research directly shaped the checks and balances of the separation of powers into three co-equal branches of government.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the primary author of the Constitution, Madison had an engineer\u2019s understanding of the weakness of the system he was trying to build. A democratic republic rests on the foundational principle that \u201cthe people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom,\u201d he said at the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention. \u201cIs there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks \u2014 no form of government can render us secure.\u201d Character is key in a democracy \u2014 and its degradation through the acceptance of lies and absurd sycophancy from Trump appointees expose how far the rot has gotten.<\/p>\n

\nThe Danger of a Demagogue\u00a0<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tIn The Federalist Papers,<\/em> Alexander Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay repeatedly warned that the greatest danger to a democracy was a demagogue who divided fellow citizens into warring tribes. As Hamilton wrote in Federalist<\/em> No. 1: \u201cOf those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHamilton perfectly anticipated the figure of Donald Trump in a letter to George Washington in 1792:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents \u2026 despotic in his ordinary demeanour \u2014 known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty \u2014 when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity \u2014 to join in the cry of danger to liberty \u2014 to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government [and] bringing it under suspicion \u2014 to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day \u2014 it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may \u2018ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead that a second time to let it sink in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cUnprincipled in private life\u201d: Check. \u201cBold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents\u201d: Check. \u201cKnown to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty\u201d: For sure. \u201cEmbarrassing the General Government [and] bringing it under suspicion \u2014 to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day\u201d: Well, that\u2019s almost too on the nose \u2014 so much so that it was cited by now-Sen. Adam Schiff during Trump\u2019s first impeachment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnother relevant Hamilton quote argued that \u201cthe only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is where we are as a nation right now \u2014 as a president deploys populist appeals to prejudice that pit Americans against one another, amplified by algorithms that increase suspicion and confusion. Now, we\u2019re left anticipating the next civil commotion created by the Trump administration\u2019s incompetence or malevolence.<\/p>\n

\nHyperpartisanship Is Poison\u00a0<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tWashington, our first, and to date, only independent president, set the precedent for the peaceful transfer of power after two terms. He announced this decision in a farewell address, written to his \u201cfriends and fellow citizens.\u201d It was a warning to future generations of Americans about the forces he feared could destroy our democratic republic. Chief among these were what we would call hyperpartisanship, followed by excessive debt, foreign wars, and foreign interference in our elections \u2014 all threats we face today.<\/p>\n

\n\tWashington\u2019s warning against hyperpartisan polarization was most urgent. \u201cThe common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis reads like a clinical description for the fevered unreason that has swamped American politics in the Trump era. It is crippling the ability of our government to function for the good of the people, as extreme ideologues and conspiracy theorists staff the administration in positions from the FBI and Homeland Security to Health and Human Services. Our country is beset by ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, as insane rumors are spread by elected and appointed officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut when my book, Washington\u2019s Farewell, <\/em>was published in 2017, the phrase about \u201criot and insurrection\u201d felt like a distant concern. Four years later, on Jan. 6, 2021, we lived through exactly that \u2014 a partisan mob storming the United States Capitol in a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power. With Trump\u2019s 2024 reelection, the pardoning of his duped shock troops was followed by an attempt to whitewash that history entirely \u2014 part of an administration-wide effort to censor inconvenient facts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nForeign Interference and Corruption\u00a0<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tIt is the almost-throwaway line at the end of Washington\u2019s warning \u2014 \u201cIt opens the door to foreign influence and corruption\u201d \u2014 that speaks to the cause and effect of foreign influence and the unprecedented corruption we are witnessing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAmerica\u2019s overseas autocratic adversaries are trying to weaken our country without firing a shot. Trump is at the very least considered a useful idiot in this effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tForeign influence on our elections has been clear since Russia\u2019s pro-Trump influence operation in the 2016 election \u2014 detailed in a multivolume report from the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee. One of the classic examples of foreign disinformation in that campaign came in the form of competing protests outside of a Houston mosque, where both sides were recruited and inflamed by Russian disinformation half a world away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2024, Trump\u2019s abrupt flip-flop on TikTok after receiving a massive cash donation from one of its parent company\u2019s biggest American investors, led him to outright ignore a bipartisan law \u2014 and a 9-0 Supreme Court order \u2014 banning the CCCP-owned social media giant. To the surprise of exactly no one, pro-Trump content was boosted around the election. The disinfo continues as AI efforts to normalize Trump are proliferating online today \u2014 trying to create the illusion that the deeply unpopular president has a broad, deep, and diverse base of support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe foreign interference is increasingly connected to outright corruption. This was such a core concern of the founders that they put in prohibitions on what they called \u201cemoluments\u201d in the Constitution. This was the Constitution\u2019s anti-corruption architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut while past presidents have worked to avoid the appearance of a conflict \u2014 with Jimmy Carter even putting his peanut farm in a blind trust \u2014 \u201cTrump has expressly organized his business interests in his second term to facilitate the receipt of foreign gifts,\u201d as a scholar from the conservative American Enterprise Institute has noted. By some measures, Trump has enriched his family by billions of dollars since his second inauguration, much of it from foreign sources, from Qatari jets to cryptocurrency hustles. He has even been credibly accused of selling presidential pardons to benefit allies and supporters.<\/p>\n

\nSeparation of Church and State<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tThe founders also warned us against the use of religion as a political weapon. Consider Trump\u2019s posts comparing \u00adhimself to Jesus, or the repeated invocation of Christian nationalism by the self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who sometimes mistakes scripture for the script of Pulp Fiction.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis is not what the founders wanted. Jefferson emphasized the freedom of religion portion of the First Amendment to the Constitution \u2014 which states that Congress \u201cshall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof\u201d \u2014 by explaining that this amounts to \u201cbuilding a wall of separation between Church [and] State.\u201d Just in case any current official tries to state that this freedom was intended to be limited to the predominant Judeo-Christian tradition, the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli has an answer for that: \u201cThe government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nUndermining the Separation of Powers<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tThe separation of powers was designed to be a check against a tyrannical executive. As Madison wrote, \u201cAmbition must be made to counteract ambition,\u201d but he didn\u2019t bet on the pervasive hyperpartisan polarization that has made Republicans in Congress subservient to this president in particular. Because the number of swing seats with competitive general elections has plummeted by partisan design, we have a Congress of cowards who are afraid of the base of their parties because they might lose a primary. All of this creates a disincentive for constructive compromise across the aisle \u2014 and so little or no legislation gets passed. Added to this dynamic is an actual fear among many Republicans that their families\u2019 safety could be at risk if they buck Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut we\u2019ve never quite seen the degradation of Congress as it exists today under the spineless Speaker Mike Johnson, who openly delegates his powers to the president, abandoning oversight of tariffs and war powers. That is a dereliction of constitutional duty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis problem is compounded by the rise of an increasingly ideological Supreme Court, which is less likely to reason together with broad majorities and more likely to advance narrow partisan agendas even at the expense of precedent, as it did by overturning 50 years of a woman\u2019s right to choose. This politicization of the judicial branch has led directly to the declining trust in the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nHow to Reunite the Nation<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

\n\tIt is a dark irony that men who pretend to be superpatriots are the ones who have most violated these fundamental warnings from the Founding Fathers. Washington warned us to \u201cguard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.\u201d But then these Trumpists repeatedly confuse patriotism with partisanship and\u00a0invoke a blood-and-soil nationalism that is the opposite of the American promise. This puts us in a dangerous place.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe worst response to this threat is civic despair: to look at the wreckage and conclude that the republic is broken beyond repair, that American democracy was always a sham, that the whole thing isn\u2019t worth defending. That is exactly what those who would dismantle our institutions want us to believe. Cynicism, depression, and apathy are their most powerful weapons.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe truly patriotic response is to push back. Celebrating America\u2019s independence is to celebrate a rebellion of citizens, who rejected the rule of a mad and distant king, who rose up to build a self-government where the people rule with both rights and responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRecent history shows us that successful pro-democracy movements are patriotic, positive, peaceful, unified, and inclusive. We need to claim the founders\u2019 wisdom for our own and resolve to rebuild the guardrails that have been broken. We have been given a great unifying cause: to strengthen American democracy for the 21st century. It will be a generational effort, cutting across government and culture, and providing an inspiring new founding agenda for the next presidents.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo combat the conditions that have enabled a demagogue\u2019s rise, we need to take power back from the extremes through election reforms, like ending the rigged system of redistricting and instituting open primaries where independent voters can participate. We also need to tame the algorithms that elevate the most confrontational and conspiratorial voices among us through transparency and other social media reforms, like the Kids Online Safety Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo rein in corruption, we need to overturn the destructive Citizens United<\/em> Supreme Court decision, to get big money out of politics, and strengthen the emoluments clause to ensure that no other president can enrich himself off the power of the office. To reassert presidential accountability, we need to pass the No Kings Act and reform the presidential-\u00adpardon process so it cannot be abused.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo heal our nation\u2019s divides, we will need to rebuild the middle class by reshoring essential manufacturing, aided by vocational training, while developing a more inclusive form of capitalism that incentivizes profit sharing. We need clear rules of the road around AI so that it can make government more efficient and effective without undermining our democracy or economy. Finally, we need an expanded version of national service to restore our common bonds while bringing back civics education so that each rising generation learns our full history as well as the rights and the responsibilities that come with being an American citizen. This is an ambitious and partial list, but all of the elements are broadly popular and would help reunite the United States rather than fuel further fragmentation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tSince the earliest days of our republic, America has been torn between a defiant native optimism and a profound pessimism about democracy\u2019s prospects for success. But citizens are not subjects, and we cannot wisely wait for someone else to come save us. Government is<\/em> us. So our charge this Independence Day is to draw on the best lessons of the past, determined to fix what\u2019s broken, as imperfect people working to form a more perfect union. The United States remains, as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201ca republic, if you can keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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