He was stridently, vocally anti-constitutional nor did he "hold these truths to be self evident . . . " nor pledge his life, fortune and sacred honor to defend those principles.
He is rightly scorned.
Much like Obama, look at who he surrounded himself with. Men like Bernays, Lippman and Creel who used the “Comittee on public information” to spread propaganda through crowd psychology. The use of citizen informants who reported on neighbors who spoke out against the administration and its policies.