Here's the quote I was searching for in my post below, on "Jacobin 'conservatives'":
"Monarchy can easily be debunked, but
watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose
taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the
dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful
than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality they cannot reach
it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires,
athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters.
For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food
and it will gobble poison. "- C.S. Lewis