For real. And unfortunately, even if the founders knew, they wouldn’t be able to do anything different.

They literally made the freedom, I.e; the constitution and the bill of rights, the supreme law of the land. They made an entire system of government and laws that say this shit can’t happen. It’s not their fault a bunch of tyrants ignored it, and more strangely, the citizenry let them.

The tree of liberty must occasionally be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike.