There are some signs that the intensity of support for democracy itself has waned, especially among the young, who never experienced the galvanizing moral clarity of the Cold War, or never focused on the ruin of entire nations by socialist central planning
It was Glenn Beck who said that “Globalism” was good if it had “conservative principles” in it, so I guess W was channeling “Conservative Globalism” in his words while Barack Obama channels “Progressive Globalism” with his.
Of course the operative word in both men’s words is ‘Globalism’.