"You had one job"

We didn’t even get to fifty. How are dudes in their thirties supposed to make their whole personality about US history a thousand years from now? There’s not gonna be enough.

Interestingly, the two leading Federalists, Washington and Hamilton, were often cast as monarchists by the leading Democratic Republicans Jefferson and Madison. Like Washington, they were from Virginia. Unlike Washington, they believed the US should kept closer to the original Articles of Confederation, read the Constitution as a document not to be liberally translated in intent, and that the US should be more of an agrarianism based economy subdivided separately among the states. While they’d never attempt to directly challenge Washington or his influence to his face (at first), they would directly attack and challenge Hamilton at every turn because of his outsider-ship and relatively low standing in classes of the time. The animosity in the last regard was so strong that a brash and fitful John Adams once remarked in calling Hamilton “a bastard brat of a Scottish pedlar”.

Obviously, while both federalists did admire certain aspects of the British economy, neither of them were monarchist at all, they just had a more firm grasp on the reality of the US needing to have a strong central government and assumption of the debt from the disparate states to ensure the economy could flourish as a singular monolithic economic power and not as a rabble of warring economies.

Arguably, what kept the fledgling US from becoming a monarchy was the stoic belief of Washington steering policy against the idea and the brilliance, unending output, and temerity of Hamilton.