The Founding Fathers Thought America Was Doomed

The fact that it hasnt 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 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 leftright 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