In blue states and red, kids are taught in grade school that the men who founded America were geniuses, as if touched by the divine with the wisdom to build the world’s first lasting democracy.

It’s time to revisit that. They made their share of mistakes. And I’m not talking about blessing the institution of slavery to curse the land for another century, or giving tiny states a ridiculous share of power. Those concessions made union possible.

I’m talking about the imperial power they gave presidents to pardon criminals, for any reason, with no checks and balances. They didn’t envision a president like Donald Trump. And that mistake could bring the whole experiment crashing down.

Think about next year’s midterms, and brace yourself. It’s not paranoid to think that Trump will try to cheat

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