What The Founders Understood about Foreign Influence and Corruption— and what They Missed

Michael Austin
4 min readOct 6, 2019

The framers of our Republic saw how a lot of things could go wrong with their designs, and they built in safeguards and course corrections to help us get back on track when power does what power always does.

They knew, for example, that foreign nations would be eager to influence our politics. And at the time…

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Michael Austin

Michael Austin is a former English professor and current academic administrator. He is the author of We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition