And for 20 years after that, I could look around the world and see that democracy and freedom were winning—more and more countries were turning to democracy. It looked like the world was going to work out. Francis Fukuyama said history had ended—or we'd reached the end of history. Helen Clark said that we were living in a benign strategic environment. We had a free-trade agreement with China, the first Western country to do so, as we hoped they, too, would join Western liberal democracy.