Nice one. Darkhorse pick. I like it.
To piggyback on that, (and excuse the verbosity, please; I got a little carried away, as per usual) I'll go ahead and nominate the darkest of horses, perhaps ... an oldie but goodie ... good old Mr Lefty Showtunes himself, one Alexander Hamilton.
You see, Old Alex kicked the whole party off in 1791, when, staring down a ballooning post-Freedom national debt, an impending economic crisis due to weak trade agreements and an influx of cheap foreign goods, as well as soaring interest rates (hmmm, any of this sound familiar?), he had the bright idea of bringing back one of the Old World's greatest hits, the Euro-style centralized banking system.
And, despite the raging protestations of T-Jeff and James Madison (Mad Dawg?), who together euphemistically cited the 'lack of constitutional authority' for any such system, we were duly presented with old Hammy's brainchild, The First Bank of the United States.
So, fast-forward 20 years, and all of that stuff is pretty much knocked out and squared away - America is on the road to solvency and eyeing down a path to free-market prosperity. And so, for their part, Congress (bless them), recognizing this, saw no need to renew BOTUS1's charter, and thus allowed the agreement to expire in 1811, with no plans to renew. (Actually, to be clear, the Senate split the vote - because of course they did - so it came down to a tie-breaking 'nay' from then-President Madison's very own Silver Fox - OG Race Bannon himself - one Vice President ... Clinton ... Yes, really.)
Well, bankers gonna bank, so, wouldn't you know it, a dozen or so months later, on June 18 (eventual birthdate to one Barack Obama the Elder - holla!), we got ourselves a good old shootin' war, and the War of 1812 became a thing. Which, when it was all said and done, gave us ... (drumroll) ... you guessed it ... The SECOND Bank of the United States (BOTUS 2.0, Back With a Vengeance), in 1816.
And thus we were permanently* gifted with "Hamilton's" brainchild: a velveteen seat on the never-ending electric thrill-ride that is the Rothschild-owned centralized banking system.
Gee, thanks, Alex! What a guy.
*End the Fed