We're so close to collectively learning the lesson that being a piece of shit on the way up shouldn't be ignored until they're on the way down, and there's a connection between that and being deserving of role model status.
>>add-su+(OP)
I think by now we would've learned to wait till after someone has died and some time has passed to let any skeletons in closets come out before idolizing them. And yet, even today, statues and buildings are named after the living..