George W. Bush in The Courage to be Free, by Ron DeSantis

On Foreign Policy: Support the growth of democratic movements in every nation

Our liberty depends on success of liberty in other lands [President George W. Bush]sketched out a view for American foreign policy that constituted Wilsonianism on steroids. "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands," Bush declared. "It is the policy of promote democracy, by force, if necessary, around the world--was grounded in Wilsonian moralism, not in a clear-eyed view of American interests. Policy resting on such an impulse was as undesirable as it was unsustainable.

This impulse also represented a disregard for the principles of our Founding Fathers. The Founders would not have thought of forcibly removing a dictator and then having a society governed by the mere whims of the majority as "liberty."

Source: The Courage to be Free, by Gov. Ron DeSantis, p. 33 Feb 28, 2023

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