In connection with a research project, I've been reading some of The Anti-Federalist papers, from the time when our Constitution was being written and debated. The Anti-Federalist Papers were the essays that argued against the form of government we have. They are less well-known than The Federalist papers (which argued for the government we now have) -- probably because history is written by the winners.
Some of those Anti-Federalist writers were flippin' prescient. Reading through some of those papers, and looking at what's happening today, is scary. We are seeing is just what they predicted would happen.