I think they’d probably be rolling more at how few are interested in being historians and actively defend them and it isn’t just the Founders who are being thrown overboard.
Liars are going to lie. You can only get so mad at a lion while it is eating you since that’s what lions do, they eat fleshy animals.
Even in our own time we have people who said basically the same things that the Founders said. The Burkean phrase: The only thing required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing; covers entirely where we’re at.
We had Tea Parties and it was working. It worked! We were actively pushing back against the media and changing their narratives, we were actively ousting worthless politicians from our side, we were being successful in local town hall meetings, and we were having Constitutional discussions among each other that I’ve never had in any other time period in my life. For some odd reason that I cannot explain it was our guys who decided they didn’t want it and I don’t mean republicans, this was conservatives. Sitting down was viewed as a better option than winning. Yeah ok everybody will show up on election day but then for the next 729 days progressives have no opposition.
I don’t get it.