If that wasn't the case, then the Founders would all be roundly castigated as imperial slave owners - which is actually true in certain circles.
The point being, do you believe Glen would be the Glen of his Senate voting record if he was currently serving today? Or would he have moderated his positions, given the new information and different viewpoints that have emerged since he retired?
By example, how many here @ FR were previously Bush supporters, who believed the GOP represented conservatives, who only reluctantly came to the conclusion that the uni-party was in cahoots with the MSM to control and direct the US for their own personal benefit?
10-15 years ago you'd be banned for supporting Trump. Now, he's the standard bearer. Times change, people change.
True, but irrelevant.
JOHN GLENN WAS MY SENATOR DURING THE 1980s.
I judged his political positions, supporting abortion and socialism, opposing strategic defense and ballistic missile modernization, in the 1980s by the standards of the 1980s. The 1980s are not something I read about in a history book or saw in a youtube video. I lived the 1980s. In Ohio. Which John Glenn misrepresented in the United States Senate. I voted against him. Twice. It is of no import to speculate as to how he would vote in the Senate today. How he conducted himself in the Senate in the 1980s and 1990s is a matter of public record. It happened. We have to deal with reality. His Senate voting record, in all its horror, is as much a part of his legacy as his heroic conduct in the Marine Corps and NASA. Ignore them both, or deal with them both.