It's Republicans, not Democrats, threatening our constitutional order
During the House of Representatives’ impeachment probe, Republicans denounced the process with a common refrain — Democrats were betraying the nation’s Founders by warping the Constitution to suit their partisan purposes. “The Founders were very concerned about a partisan impeachment,” Republican Rep. Douglas A. Collins of Georgia insisted in his opening statement in the House’s impeachment hearing.
And, in a way, congressional Republicans are right. But not for the reasons they think. In fact, it is Republicans’ position on impeachment that would trouble the Founders because the party’s partisan rigidity threatens to upend the proper constitutional order.
The Founders decried partisanship in any facet of American government. They could not then have imagined the two-party structure that solidified over the next two centuries. Nor could they have fathomed the partisan polarization that currently colors every aspect of American political life.
In the 18th century, political thinkers viewed parties as unnaturally divisive and manipulative. Rather than representing competing ideologies and interests, parties poisoned politics by disrupting consensus and privileging special interests over the common good. In Federalist 10, James Madison defined parties, then called “factions,” as any group “adversed [sic] to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/07/its-republicans-not-democrats-threatening-our-constitutional-order/