“This urge to spread democracy is, IMNVHO, a perversion of Christian Evangelism”
You’ve described the problem exactly.
It’s an Idol for a number of people, Democracy as the Messiah that will bring peace to the whole world.
But democracy as we practice it is a product of America’s British culture, the Magna Carta and all that, meeting the necessity for self government out in the hinterlands of North America. It developed out of the culture that grew here in the colonial era.
The idea that it can be transferred to any country on Earth is a peculiarly modern belief held by people who have no understanding of how powerful religion and culture are in shaping of societies and how they govern themselves.
Even our German cousins didn’t take to democracy when it was imposed on them after WWI. They were used to having a strong leader, and it didn’t take them long to jettison the Weimar Republic in favor of a strongman.
You have to be a real true believer to buy the idea that Islam, an even more alien environment where religion and government and culture are all one, can become a liberal democracy.
What he gets is that WWI and WWII were the same war. In WWI, we were essentially duped into fighting for the British, and French empires. Unfortunately, it wiped out entire generations, except in this country. That left us uniquely poised to enter WWII to save them and their tottering empires again, (they thought), in which, Japan having attacked us, and Germany and Italy having declared war, we wound up with little choice.
Pat always makes the sane argument, "Well, why fight alongside Stalin and the Soviets, who were if possible, far more brutal than Hitler ... and who at the beginning of the war were ALLIED with Hitler?"
Result? The British Empire and French Empires collapsed in FDR's communist-inspired post-war "democracy movement." We're still paying the price for the Europeans, whom we forced to cut loose colonies that will never be ready for democratic self-government because bankrupted by the wars, they know longer could sustain them.
Take PB cum grano salis, if you must, but listen to him. He gets it ... probably too late to our Republic any good ... but he gets it.