flaw in the founding father s constitution. they believe that to create a political system, you did not need to ensure that people acted virously. if men were angels, james madison famously wrote no government would be necessary. ambition would be made to counter ambition and checks and bal balances, acting responsible and virously, one branch of government, congress is supposed to check the other but today for republicans, party politics trump s institutional loyalty, the real scandal of january 6th is not what happened outside the capitol alone, it s what happened inside when a majority of house republicans voted to overturn the valid results of a presidential election simply to curry favor with donald trump.