Washington: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

I assume he'd say "I warned you."

those good old floundering fathers to us all

Probably love it. You had rich white dudes who didn't want to pay taxes. How do you think your country would turn out.