James Madison stood tall enough to see the future, and alerted us to the potential consequences of a government led by a seriously dysfunctional ruling class
There are seriously negative consequences to America as a result of the tabloidization of the erratic and bizarre behavior of America's ruling class--elected and unelected--that navigate in, over, and around the D.C. Swamp.
The man often called The Father of the U.S. Constitution foresaw the worst of those consequences as "the mischievous effects of a mutable government." He imagined several of those effects in Federalist Paper No. 62 as, like very few other among the nation's pantheon of Founders, he peered over the horizon into what could go wrong in the new Republic.