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Tyrants are indeed the last gasp of failed republics.

And yet, the Framers provided the means for our salvation.

It is right under the noses of a people distracted by politics-as-sport spectacle.

Trump/Cruz is the combo only that seems to me capable of turning power back to the States, probably via that Article 5 Convention. Whether they would actually do that once in position is not a foregone conclusion and not a good bet, either.
In 2016 we are voting for the man we want for Dictator, no matter what we call it. Some good guys running will still be Dictator if they win but will likely be Failed Dictator because they try to hew closely to traditional Constitutionalism in order to get back to the Constitution. It won't work that way. Congress will use what power it has, which is the power it had ceded to the President and he tries to give back by being Constitutionally correct, to oppose and neutralize whatever he tries to do.

A Trump, if he is so minded once elected, could accomplish the abolition of EPA and the other pernicious Agencies which is the first thing that must be done. If that is not done the Agencies, especially EPA will seize the power the new President has foregone by not abolishing them by fiat and force of arms if necessary and EPA will rule. Then, if he is so minded, he must use his influence, not raw power, to persuade the States to quickly go to the Article 5 Convention and thereby take their Constitutional power back.

I would not bet on it happening but I see no other way back to the Constitutional Republic we once were. There is always armed and violent Revolution but that never ends well. 1776 was not, in fact, a Revolution. It was a rebellion against essentially a distant foreign colonial power, even though most of the rebels thought of themselves as Englishmen.