The Founding Fathers Thought America Was Doomed

“The fact that it hasn’t ended in the past 230 years suggests that maybe [it will] last a good deal longer,” says historian Dennis C. Rasmussen, author of “Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders.“ ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Reason is the planet’s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to for a point of view you won’t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- For those who predict that the American experiment can’t last, and who worry the social fabric is disintegrating at a time of rising political division, it’s worth remembering that back when the ink had barely dried on the Constitution, the founding fathers’ were deeply pessimistic about the fu