Yeah, my Nancy Reagan does similar shit on the regular.
She’s nearly lived up to her namesake in the sense that she doesn’t really like anyone and is pretty strong on the “just say no” aspect of things.
I love her anyway in spite of her being a cold hearted bitch. In spite of all her great upbringing, she’s never met anyone she wasn’t prepared to scratch or swipe at, drawing random blood.
The short version is that it was about the transfer of power from hereditary nobility to a different elite consisting of wealthy merchants and “gentlemen” farmers. This transfer was already happening anyway throughout the British Empire, the Americans just wanted to speed it up and codify it.