Not always, but often enough to justify democratic idealism, they were right.
Bill Clinton believes a President should provide leadership in political morality and democratic idealism.
None, if you do not think Clintonian democratic idealism is corrupted to the point of mockery by sidling up to one of the more vicious tyrants.
The Austrian revolutionaries of 1848, flushed with liberal and democratic idealism, swept away the entire organisation.
The newly elected leadership fell short of expectations, departing from the democratic idealism and the ecologist materialism infused by its founder Metanie.
President Sadat's October Paper and political reform were motivated by self-preservation, not democratic idealism.
U.S. officials, area specialists and journalists in fear of victory again will underestimate the power of democratic idealism.
However this radical Reconstruction era would collapse because of multidimensional racialism related to the spread of democratic idealism (progressivism).
Mr. Stiglitz argues that market forces have gone too far and that it's time for "a new democratic idealism."
American "pragmatists" warn that democratic idealism will make us the world policeman.