In our Watchmen, there are more clear cut bad guys who represent an ideology that is almost impossible to defeat.
The paradigm shift here was that the ‘good guy’ and the ‘bad guy’ were the same person.
As subversive a text as the original Watchmen was, in the end, it followed the same arc as any superhero story: the hero saves the world.
As is the case with most White Supremacists, Keene doesn’t see taking Manhattan’s power as appropriation as much as taking something he already feels entitled to.