Writes Chris Dominguez: "The man who campaigned on 'no nation building' and the scaling back of domestic socialism, has morphed into Woodrow Wilson Abroad and LBJ at Home, a tyrant who carries a big stick but yet can hardly speak—let alone softly. No conservative, George W. Bush might be more accurately placed among Progressives Era liberals. Perhaps the words of Albert Jay Nock describe him well:
"'The political liberal is the most dangerous person in the world to be entrusted with power, for no one knows what he will do with it; and the worst of him is, that whatever he does, he will persuade himself that it was a divinely-appointed thing to be done, e.g., Mr. Wilson at the Peace Conference….The Liberal has no character, only stubbornness; and there is nothing he will not do….I have known many political liberals in my lifetime, some very highly placed, and there is none of them whom I would willingly see again, either in this world or in the next.'” (A Journal of These Days, 1934)
