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In reply to the discussion: Tyrants like Trump always fall - and we can already predict how he will be dethroned [View all]RockCreek
(990 posts)The article begins "Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits. More recently, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows, Slobodan Milosevic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was run to ground in a sewer. Tyranny, from the Greek túrannos (“absolute ruler”), is typically fuelled by hubris and leads ineluctably to nemesis. Tyrants are for toppling. Their downfall is a saving grace."
But what about those who don't? I'm no historian, but I suspect there is a long list. Particularly considering the large number of Tyrants in history.
Stalin?
The House of Saud?
Rulers of some of the former Soviet "Stan" republics?
South American dictators?
I'm throwing out possibilities here.
I'd like to know about former democracies or near democracies whose leaders went authoritarian and what happened.
Those may be the applicable cases.
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