1700’s .....what you said.....like minded men!
Yes! Yes indeed!!!
Where did all these passionate, relatively well-to-do (no need nor fear of money and/or the lack of it), educated men come from and determine they were all on the same page ?
IMO ...
Nothing less than the influence of God
Trump is one of those ... a well to do citizen, passionately motivated to do "American" things and powerful/loud enough to gather like minded people around him
Probably not the direct influence of God ..... but I think we have His permission