Not all of history's bloody tyrants fit the mold the gentlethinker paints. The effete Emperor's of Rome. Kim Jong Il.
Pride and recklessness are often exactly what is missing from executives who've seen war. G Washington?
Maniacal tyrants develop from persons of all backgrounds...environmental, familial: what they have in-common is the RIGHTIOUSNESS of their sundry CAUSES; and the levers of POWER to COMMAND, and PURSUADE: dehumanize GROUPS of ‘ENEMIES’...foreign and domestic....and EXECUTE ‘WAR’ against them.
Regarding those commonalities above, I think one must be in a pishy-poshy, comforting DENIAL, not to have noted the nascent and developed TENDENCIES toward unreasoned RIGHTIOUSNESS, and agglomeration of streamlined POWERS over large groups...and with support from large groups who oppose those targeted groups [and, who believe they will be on the winning side , and may live FREE and FOR FREE under their TYRANNICAL BENEFACTOR], fomented by our current CIC and his sycophants.
You want to lose this free republic? Sit back and let him take it....believing that he'll not be able to do it. It's not paranoia: it's prudent vigilance.
Who thought the sky was actually falling in 1936??
Don't be foolishly optimistic. Tyrants come and go. Yes. But they can take your wealth and loved ones with them in the course of their temporary folly.