Burns’ bohemian lifestyle wouldn’t have put him in good stead with the Founding Fathers. His strident anti-churchism would also have made him unpopular. The French Revolution was more his style. Even Thomas Jefferson came to renounce the French Revolution for its over-the-top mob rule.
The seeds of communism were born in the French revolution.
In Soviet Russia, Burns was elevated as the archetypal poet of the people. A new translation of Burns proved enormously popular. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to honour Burns with a commemorative stamp in 1956.
The English Romantic poets were a strange bunch. Blake was an anarchist, If Shelley had lived longer he probably would have been a communist.