What if the American Revolution Had Failed? (Updated to include Curtis Yarvin's 2008 counterfactual fantasy)

To mark the US semiquincentennial, I wrote this new piece discussing how Americans have wondered "what if" about the American Revolution. Thanks to the folks at Real Clear History for publishing it. I'm pasting it below and have added a paragraph that cites Curtis Yarvin's rightwing fantasy from 2008 about the revolution failing and leaving the US under (superior) monarchical rule. I had kept the…