^In that video which that Christian YouTube user uploaded ( https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=-s8eWbZh1Qs ), he explained some history:
>...portray the jacobites as just a bunch of angry Scots who hated the English but that is so far from the actual story which I'll try to condense just to get my point across. not long after england became protestant then catholic again then protestant again the english and Irish throne was inherited by king james vi of scotland who became king james the first of England. finally uniting the british isles under a single ruler after centuries upon centuries of conflict. james was from the royal house of stuart so remember that. his descendant charles the first led the royalists in the english civil war lost to the parliamentarians who wanted to abolish the monarchy and with his death oliver cromwell became lord protector of great britain. he made this dictatorship a hereditary position which would be passed to his son. so he started a war to abolish the monarchy which killed thousands of people then created his own monarchy: cunt. thankfully the powers that be saw that for the bullshit which it was. and after his death they restored the stuart monarchy by bringing back charles's son charles ii charles ii was an extremely popular king but despite having 12 illegitimate children he did not have a legitimate heir. this meant the throne would go to his brother james who had converted to catholicism. the lords and parliament, rather than allowing a catholic monarch imported william of orange to overthrow the stewards three years after james ii's coronation and killed him. the jacobites named themselves after james and over the course of 40 years fought multiple wars to restore the catholic inheritance of house stewart to the throne. largely supported by scotland who wanted a house of their own back on the throne and the irish who wanted a catholic monarch restored as well as from the stuarts promising to grant ireland more autonomy. this is all to say that i found my version of the sanfordista a british reactionary catholic movement who sadly lost their fight against the parliamentarians that then brought in democracy and so began the shitshow that we find ourselves in today.

He later quotes someone as saying "Is there anyone else in the room who’s here because he’s just plain embarrassed by the present world? The past is a foreign country, someone once said. If the past is a foreign country, someone else said, a reactionary is a patriot of that country. Almost an exile from it. \\ And unlike the presentist, who sees the past as a tiny, backward and contemptible province of his vast eternal present, the reactionary knows the opposite. The present is a province of the past. Yes, it’s true—like any province, it has its specialties. The food, for instance. The iPads—superb. The movies—never better." ( https://megalodon.jp/2024-0511-0715-07/https://www.unqualified-reservations.org:443/2013/11/mr-jones-is-rather-concerned/ ).

So the past can be seen as something we can try again. It worked, and had worthwhile/good ideas (even those of certain defeated non-monarchical governments).