The legacy of W.F. Buckley will outlive any statue of him by far. He’s one of the founders of modern conservatism IMO.
I used to enjoy Buckley’s Firing Line as a teenager.
As a consequence of that plus a good memory I’m aware that some of what passes as conservatism today would have been political liberalism circa 1965. This is especially true with race and civil rights. Goldwater, Buckley and Reagan all opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Some of our woke conservative bretheren will be lumping them in with the Klan if they discover that.