by John Fund
Visitors are met with an unremittingly negative view of the Founders, set up to take the blame for everything from Hurricane Katrina flooding to George Floyd’s death.
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Thomas Jefferson’s mansion, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., May 20, 2022
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Thomas Jefferson has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Founding Fathers: He gets no respect, not even at his Monticello home near Charlottesville, Va.
Recent visitors say the mansion, which has adorned the U.S. nickel coin since 1938, has become a center of radically revisionist history. “The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,” Jeffrey Tucker, a recent visitor from the libertarian Brownstone Institute, told the New York Post.
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John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.
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Thomas Jefferson has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Founding Fathers: He gets no respect, not even at his Monticello home near Charlottesville, Va.
Recent visitors say the mansion, which has adorned the U.S. nickel coin since 1938, has become a center of radically revisionist history. “The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,” Jeffrey Tucker, a recent visitor from the libertarian Brownstone Institute, told the New York Post.
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About the Author
John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.
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