I agreed with Reagan, because Soviet Communism posed a clear threat to the United States. The Soviets had a massive military, a large nuclear arsenal, and many ideological allies in the West. We face no such comparable threat today.
Reagan had no trouble allying us with authoritarian regimes when it was in our interest. He criticized Carter for abandoning the Shah and Somoza, for example, because he placed the national interests of the United States above abstract appeals to "freedom."
By contrast, Bush's speech wasn't focused on our concrete national interests but on abstract appeals to freedome. Bush's speech even explicitly linked our freedom to the spread of freedom abroad. In other words, America is somehow in danger if Mali and Myanmar are ruled by dictators. Anyone who seriously believes that is insane.
Rogue nations led by brutal dictators who hate us, and have the means to destroy us, do indeed infringe on our freedom. They are a 'clear threat' to our security and freedom to live as we choose.
btw, the Soviet Union was discovered to have been not nearly the threat as we supposed it was before the Iron Curtain fell...............their 'stockpiles of weapons,' as it were, and capability not as strong as we were led to believe by their bluster.