Fig leaf gone

Today China is scrapping Presidential time limits clearing way for Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely 

It won't end well. 

Napoleon crowned himself Emporer vowed to maintain the integrity of Republican territory, to bring about respect for equal rights, and to enforce political, civic and religious freedoms.

Then there was Hitler who famously climbed the ladder of democracy and then kicked it away it with the Enabling Act of 1933. 

His speech was full of assurances, and combating unemployment was a primary concern. He promised parliamentarians a "thorough moral cleansing of the body politic."

But in the words of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."