Sure, but that passage is about the political uses of the causal argument that happened to win (and that the OP thinks is incorrect). It makes no counterfactual

Sure, but that passage is about the political uses of the causal argument that happened to win (and that the OP thinks is incorrect). It makes no counterfactual claims. dspeyer's point is a good one if (but only if) the article actually does make the two claims he mentioned. Does it? I don't remember.