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You said he was a liberal (liberals are on the left--that's how it works). You are basing your argument on information I consider inherently flawed. I do not believe that traditional and conservative is the same as absolutist. No one, even Louis XVIII, did or is advocating a complete return to the style of Louis XIV, only that the monarch should have a real and active role in running the government.

Your kind of monarchy was tried in France, and it failed completely. The liberals hated any monarchy inherently and the conservatives felt that they had been sold out in favor of the left. The revolution and all of its monstrous results must be recognized and thrown out. The Kingdom of France lasted for centuries, once it was gone look how many demi-monarchies and republics have come and gone.

And, BTW "Emperor" Norton was not a 'might-have-been', nowhere comparable to Charles Stuart, he was simply a nut with a lot friends and a sense of civic-duty and delusions of grandeur.