Yes in modern times it was deemed necessary to emphasize “democracy” over “republic”. So he’s built up to near secular deity status and the other Founding Fathers are ignored or reduced to the “background”.
Many of the men we admire are coated in marble. we refuse to see the living breathing human being under the marble.
When facts are presented to the contrary, we recoil in horror. A good example from some years back, was the fact that R.E.Lee had a couple of recalcitrant slave whipped for their insubordination. Eye witness accounts and a bill paid to the Sheriff that whipped the slaves was insufficient to sway the true Lee loyalists from their view that Lee was a perfect example of Nobility and Humanity. They were unable or unwilling to strip the marble off of the statue.