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Were Chesterton & Jefferson Modernists & okay with French Revolution genocide "in the name of the rights of man" & did ambiguous "rights language" bring us the Francis/McCarrick Crisis?

Exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger at 36:27 explains the problem with the  ambiguous "'no one ever defines... fluid' term 'rights'" : 36:27 The problem with the term "rights"  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPy8GzTs87I] Be the revolutionary Robespierre, Chesterton says, not the conservative Burke... Catholic Herald https://catholicherald.co.uk  › Blogs Jul 14, 2021 —  Chesterton   praised the leading   revolutionary   Robespierre, despite his being responsible for so much bloodshed. [ https://catholicherald.co.uk/ch/happy-bastille-day-chesterton-says-be-robespierre/] "Jacobin Terror... led to the deaths of thousands  in the name of  the rights of man.  Jefferson cooly argues that it is worth the price even if most were innocent victims. ... noncombatants... Jefferson says...  ' Rather than [the French Revolution] should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated. were there but an Adam & Eve left in every country , a...