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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: A Tyrant for the Ages?
Description: If you happen to  have Netflix, there is an interesting documentary series called "How  To Become a Tyrant," which I give a pretty good rating to overall. The  only drawback is that it relies entirely on a modern era understanding of who is  a tyrant and how they obtained that position. There are some really applicable  lessons in this show, and they're not wrong about these men who became tyrants,  but it lacks the historical long view.
The American of the late 1780's had a specific understanding  of what tyrannies are, and what kind of person manages to beco...