Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall

The US con­sti­tu­tion pro­tects incom­pe­tence. But don’t under­es­ti­mate the self-destruc­­­tive pow­er of the president’s own hubris 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…