HOLY SMOKES, (I used to be one) I didn’t know that. I’ve always thought they were a pure red blooded American family. So the phrase goes back a couple of generations.
I’m fairly certain it goes back 60-110 years.
Certainly 60 years, imho.
And, the movement . . . goes back 400 years.
There’s plausible evidence it goes back to the elites of Rome.
Money and Power has learned over the centuries ways to mostly hold onto . . .
money and power—at least within the extended family and then the extended club of elites.
The bit about Granddad B funding Hitler was documented by Congress.
I’m sure dogpile.com could find it.