The French Revolution was the first humanist/socialist (based solely on the Enlightenment without the Reformation) revolution that ultimately devolved into Napoleon. The aristocracy has taken a beating from the far left ever since, especially with the Russian Revolution. Their answer to Marxism was Fascism after the Russian Revolution, but is now environmentalism. There are many conservatives who continue to misunderstand the environmental movement as the new red. They are not.
"...most liberals can only comfortably think about what needs to be fixed in the exteriors (such as economics) in order to make society a better place.” The classical liberals who founded America didn’t think this way at all.
"...There was the radical Enlightenment of France (bad) and the skeptical Enlightenment of Scotland and America (good), and the two were as different as can be, resulting in very different societies and value systems. ..."