George Washington got congress to sign a Whiskey Tax that had a huge negative effect on small whiskey distillers and benefitted only large whiskey distillers. This led directly to the "Whiskey Rebellion," in 1794, when the poor stood up to fight for their rights. Washington led the United States army to violently put down the protests. Hey, guess who owned the biggest whiskey distillery in America at the time? George fucking Washington. He was far closer to being Elon Musk or Donald Trump than he was to being any kind of leftist. Washington was one of the wealthiest men in America before and after the revolution. He and most of his close friends were wealthy slave-owners. Fuck that dude.