The Rise of Heroes

In his 1949 classic, "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", Joseph Campbell wrote:

"The figure of the tyrant-monster is known to the mythologies, folk traditions, legends, and even the nightmares of the world; and his characteristics are everywhere essentially the same. He is the hoarder of the general benefit. He is the monster avid for the greedy rights of "my and mine." The havoc wrought by him is described in mythology and fairy tale as being universal throughout his domain. This may be no more than a household, his own tortured psyche, or the lives he blights with the touch of his friendship and assistance; or it may amount to the extent of his civilization. The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world - no matter how his affairs seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions. Wherever he sets his hand there is a cry (if not from the housetops, then - more miserably - within every heart); a cry for the redeeming hero, the carrier of the shining blade, whose blow, whose touch, whose existence, will liberate the land."

That description, spanning time and civilizations, fits Trump amazingly well.

In the face of that our constitutional mechanisms of impeachment do not seem up to the task when they are controlled by those "he blights with the touch of his friendship and assistance". Elections seem eons away when in a nuclear instant he is "the world's messenger of disaster". 

So, how will our heroes arise in the same democracy that elected the tyrant?