OTOH, when corrupt republics are in their final days, a tyrant may emerge. The powers of tyrants have no time limit. Tyrants are outlaws hostile to republican freedom. Tyrants assume, grasp, and otherwise illegally seize powers that dont belong to them. They either destroy republican institutions outright, or like Obama, they squeeze the neck of institutions like congress that stand in their way. In time, once free institutions are compromised and become docile, subservient rubber stamps to the will of the tyrant.
We technically have a constitution, yet for practical purposes we don't, not because of a dictator, but because congress has unconstitutionally relinquished power which has subsequently swirled into the hands of an appreciative tyrant, Obama.
Thanks for the history lesson. My remembrance of things long past is sketchy. I know more about ‘recent’ events. Hitler and Stalin weren’t dictators in the mild you mentioned. Although their initial goal was to gain their country’s massive amounts of power and land, they ended up harming them - and being tyrants.
I think Obama is more of their mold, since he believes in fascism and communism. Those political ideologies are a fairly new concept.