Simon Tisdall of The Guardian has written a testy tirade against what he terms is the tyrant Trump:

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

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president]

We know what we are in for from the first paragraph:

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.

We begin with a quick Shakespearian reference to establish highbrow street cred. Then straight to Saddam, the USA's favorite tyrant until he wasn't. Then Milosevic, sent to jail by the court that has failed to jail Netanyahu for razing Gaza, who was imprisoned as a result of Yugoslavia being dismembered just so the USA could establish an enormous forward base in Kosovo. Al-Assad, evicted by terrorists from his country that was also illegally invaded by Turkey, who did the same thing to Cyprus in 1974, and the USA, who do it wherever and whenever they like. Gaddafi run to ground by the US providing his satellite co-ordinates to chasing rebels who finished him off with a bayonet up his rectum, much to Hillary Clinton's delight, provoking the destabilisation of Libya and a disastrous European migrant crisis.

Maybe these tyrants did deserve toppling. Maybe their downfall is a saving grace.

Only the people still living in their peaceful and stable, tyrant-free countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria - can tell you that.

But Tisdall needs to think a little about whose 'hubris' will bring about their 'nemesis', since he brings this up.

There's a reason, just for example, why Jonathan Haslam titles his book about the origins of Russia's war against Ukraine Hubris and it's not much to do with Putin's hubris. Something that, to his credit, Guardian columnist Seamus Milne pointed out years ago in 2014, before The Guardian went all 'right-wing' in their support for Ukrainian nationalists and those plucky, democracy-loving Azov fighters.

[https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/it-s-not-russia-that-s-pushed-ukraine-to-the-brink-of-war/]

Later on in Tisdall's tyrannical tirade, we get the usual lament about the demise of the 'rules-based order':

How may what remains of the international rules-based system be salvaged?

Yes, that tyrannical system of our rules, your order that has provoked so many illegal wars and CIA-backed coups over the last few decades and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in far-off countries while providing record levels of profits for weapons manufacturers. That's definitely something worth salvaging if you don't happen to live in the countries the rules have been applied to or do own shares in weapons manufacturers.

Tisdall's masterstroke is his clever reference to that English historical period, the interregnum:

Polls show Trump losing the middle-of-the-roaders whose votes ended the Biden interregnum.

Ha! The Biden interregnum.

If only Biden - the self-confessed 'Irishman' - were Cromwell instead of a demented democrat. Then maybe the restoration (of Trump - geddit?) would never have happened, mainly because his head would have been chopped off first time around.

But Biden was not Cromwell. He couldn't even get up the aircraft steps, let alone personally lead an army that won the English civil war and smashed Catholic Ireland along the way.

If Biden had been the lead regicide in England at the time, the country would still be ruled by an absolutist monarchy.

After another lament about how the mainstream media has been rejected for peddling agendised, fake news stuffed with wokery and backed by ridiculous AI fact-checkers who never apologise for their own 'mistakes', we get this:

Of all the tools in the tyrant-toppling toolbox, none are so potentially decisive as those supplied by Trump’s own stupidity. Most people understand how worthless a surrender monkey “peace deal” is that rewards Putin and betrays Ukraine. Does Trump seriously believe his support for mass murder in Gaza, threats to Iran and reckless bombing of Iran will end the Middle East conflict and win him a Nobel peace prize?

Most people fail understand how provoking a right-wing, neo-Nazi backed coup in Ukraine that actually toppled a democratically elected government is OK, but occupying the US Capitol and 'right-wing' protests against immigration in the UK is not and everyone involved deserves long jail sentences.

Maybe the 'most people' that Tisdall refers to long for the return of torchlit parades, Hitler salutes at holocaust memorials, linguistic and cultural crackdowns and the persecution of 'undesirables' and those pesky 'deplorables' who don't vote for the correct candidate - but I seriously doubt it.

Anyway, tyrant or not, stupid or not, Trump may yet get his peace prize.

Obama got a Nobel Peace prize before he achieved anything and look what he achieved as a result of becoming a prize-winning peacemaker: A lucrative book deal for him and his wife.