Half the people in France died for nothing huh?
No, not for nothing.
Their deaths kicked off almost every Terror of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. From the death camps to the gulags to the modern Left ... all stem in one way or another from the epic shit moment in history that was the French Revolution.
Indeed, from the beginning of the progressive movement in America in the 19th century they were people who wanted something more French, with government only limited by what is politically doable and not by any want for enumerated powers. Where all privileges and immunities were political in nature rather than have English Common Law as the basis for put Laws. People who wanted to haul us back away from the genius of our founding. I suppose in that they were the predecessors of current nitwits who imagine that THEY will be the ones to finally make socialism work.
The French were the very first to get ****ed over by modernity and the Administrative form of laws ... that’s got to count for something.