We attended a performance the other night, a one man show entitled Conflict Between Church and State: An Audience with Henry VII. A bit weird for Jamestown Settlement since the date Henry VIII was portraying was about 50 b years before Jamestown was settled
Anyway, the premise was the creation of the Church of England because of the conflict with the Pope over divorce laws (among other things). It all sounded very Trumpish, right down to justifying the closing and confiscation of the Monasteries and land owned by the Vatican that was redistributed to the Lords and rulers of England. Henry called giving it to the people, and since the monarch and the lords were the rich, they knew better how to manage it than the "Commons"
As we were leaving one of the patrons commented, "It wasn't the last time a working person got hoodwinked by a crooked politician".