They said thousands of troops would be killed.
They said oil would hit $200 a barrel.
They said our Gulf allies would turn on us.
They said BRICS would join the war on Iran���s side.
They said the stock market would crash.
They were wrong about quite literally everything.
What the proper historiography should be is not necessarily what the Founders believed.
Caesar was an epithet to the Founders. The best Anti-Federalist essays were written under the pseudonym Brutus. If Hamilton used “Caesar” instead of “Publius” in The Federalist essays the Constitution wouldn’t have been ratified.
They didn’t see the late republic as healthy and acknowledged the decline due to corruption and the loss of civic virtue, but they imputed noble intentions to those opposing Caesar and believed their goal was to restore the republic to past glory.
Rome was a cautionary tale about the fragility of republics, the need for civic virtue, and the susceptibility of republics to degenerate into tyranny.