Statues and monuments are a pretty lousy way to tell history regardless of who erects them.
I lived in DC for years, and my favorite monument was always the Jefferson Memorial. It’s the one monument I would actually visit on my own without out of town guests.
And I had a complicated relationship with it as my views on Jefferson evolved over my life.
(If anything, Jefferson is currently on an upswing with me because I tend to always react negatively to cultural sea changes, and Hamilton has really knocked Jefferson’s stock down in the general culture).
Interesting. I was a big fan of Jefferson's back in high school, but got interested in Hamilton later because he was underrated and under-appreciated while Jefferson seemed to get away with murder. Given all that's been going on, I may have to rethink that now.