Yeah it’s sort of the foundation of NRx/Dark Enlightenment in that the Enlightenment and it’s progressivism (the dominant force in Western government the last few hundred years) has resulted in the most violent and destructive governments the world has ever seen. Even when not violent it’s incredibly coercive through its system of creating dependent states and of course justifying it because a democracy happened.

Going back to the American revolution it was in essence a battle between the Tories and the Whigs with the rebels and a great deal of the British leadership being Whigs and making “the progress” of Americas founding inevitable.

Yeah, it's sort of the foundation of NRx/Dark Enlightenment to take historical events broadly agreed in all credible quarters to have taken place, and then spin the goddamnedest nonsense anyone ever heard out of them. Not that you'd know it by Moldbug or his imitators, but is possible to criticize American hegemony without playacting Jane Fonda at the Reichskanzlei.