Washington Examiner: Tim Scott rolls out July 4 message: Founding Fathers ‘should be celebrated, not canceled’
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) defended America’s Founding Fathers in a Tuesday video released by his presidential campaign to commemorate Independence Day.
“Our Founding Fathers were geniuses who should be celebrated, not canceled,” he says in the clip.
This comes as the United States has seen a growing trend of rejecting past leaders for their failure to live up to present-day standards. As a result, countless statues and monuments have been removed while buildings and streets have been renamed. Some of the removed monuments have been in tribute to Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Philip Schuyler, and Thomas Jefferson, among others.
In the video, Scott stands in front of military planes thanking “patriots who fought on the battlefield for freedom.