Hamilton musical, but they’re both Founding Fathers who helped create this country’s ethos, which apparently also includes messed up takes on what patriotism is.
This started off our problem of blind loyalty vs. criticism.After that, and I largely blame Nixon for it along with most political historians, we became cynical about government as well.
Between watching cops beat the hell out of civil rights activists, and the National Guard shooting unarmed college kids protesting the war in Vietnam, Nixon went out and betrayed our democracy by trying to clumsily steal the election and got caught.
After that it was a downhill slide into a nihilistic take from many that our country was irredeemably evil, corrupt, and not worth saving.