Conservatives have been reading from the liberal playbook on “human rights” to justify foreign military interventions and globalism for years. Lord knows Dubya did that constantly. It’s only sounding out of place now that Trump’s campaign has realigned the political spectrum.
That was due to neoconservatives displacing foreign policy realists. I can't imagine Reagan or even Bush I people such as Lawrence Eagleburger, Cap Weinberger, or James Bakker advocating "Arab Spring" or pushing regime change and nation-building in the name of "Democracy" in places like Libya or Syria. In contrast, the neoconservatives were all gung ho for Arab Spring, which is why many of them preferred Hillary to Trump, at least on foreign policy. If they criticized Obama and Hillary at all, it was because they weren't enthusiastic enough about supporting the Arab spring rebels and their allies.
The realignment you're talking about is just a return to conservative common sense. Foreign policy realists recognized that authoritarian regimes were the only things keeping most of these countries from exploding into chaos or being overrun by jihadi militants.