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"The real threat to American democracy, as Diderot had also suggested in his Essay on Seneca, came less from foreign powers than from the unintended consequences of future success: luxury goods, the rise of class tensions, political corruption, venality, and, in the worst scenario, perhaps even a dictator."

Venality = susceptibility to bribery