They were time travelers (via prayer?) and saw the country was going to be plagued by:

 - Non-citizen voters
 - Infringements of right to self defence
 - Central banking
 - A Non-US born president

Among many other foresights.
 

 Lol what’s a citizen ? U living an idea of another man, citizenship is the right of the victor’s I’m sure the natives have a whole different perspective and so did those before them