Did the framers anticipate what we are witnessing today?

Yes, and those checks and balances were removed. Career politicians were never supposed to be a thing. Identity politics were never supposed to be a thing. We were never supposed to be a “democracy” where every single 75 IQ moron in the entire country gets to vote and choose our leaders and policies. This country wasn’t designed to have foreign and monopolized media outlets dominating the news cycle 24/7. We were supposed to have as much firepower as the military to keep them in check.

They anticipated all of this, they put guidelines in place to avoid it, and the feel-gooder liberals have gradually undone all of their rational work in favor of “my feels”. It’s fricked

While they knew people would be stupid and corrupt politicians would try to take advantage of that stupidity, there’s no way they could have predicted the way social media magnifies that stupidity.

No or else they would have dictated the limit of justices to the Supreme Court and given term limits to Senators, Reps, and Justices.

No way the framers envisioned career politicians. No good government is designed to have politicians so engrained in government that they can become multi-millionaires and compound their wealth year after year by putting their interests above the people.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Yes, the framers anticipated this very thing. They thought that the checks and balances would last as long as the people of the country remained moral. They knew this democracy would eventually fall to factionalism. I expect they would be pleased and surprised at this country lasting 250 years.

Anyway, if you want to know more about this you can read the Federalist Papers. Hamilton, Jay and Madison discuss every facet of the government and other national institutions.

The framers constitution died in 1865.

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The framers had the provision that only land owners could vote. Have some skin in the game.

That was repealed. Needs to be brought back.

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Say what?

You think that the Constitution originally contained a property requisite for exercise of the franchise? Good Lord, the Constitution left that matter entirely to the States, and that did not change for almost a century with ratification of the 15A.

In 1789, only a handful of the 13 original States limited the franchise to property owners, and even THOSE States had a number of gaping-hole exceptions.

I mean the founders thought "shall not be infringed" would be clear enough, they were wrong...