>>762648I'm not keen on the Stuarts coming back.
I kind of bicker at Catholic Jacobites pretending that Stuarts can come back–that's definitely not happening because their Catholicism destroyed the chance back then… I mean, they are glad these sacrifices were made… that a Stuart King stood his ground for his faith, but that comes at a cost… that the Stuart dynasty is gone.
Monarchists in general, esp. legitimatists, seem to me to just not really comprehend when it's over–and it's partially over because of their optimism that we should be too eager to overthrow a king, but assume that it is as easy to resume a king as it is to overthrow (no, it's not)–that King James II -deserves- the throne back by his lineage because he did the right thing, so it should be granted–the monarchists are keen to make a stand there as well and make sacrifices as if the costs don't matter, but when you sacrifice like that you truly must be taken as a sacrifice–it's not coming back, even if it deserves to be back.