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It's interesting that certain constellations of personality traits seem to travel together, even in different cultures, and in different centuries. The cult-of-personality goes with the authoritarianism, which goes with the desire to delegitimate all criticism, which goes with particular ideas about sex, and the relations between men and women. So again, in 2017, we see the revival of the same united set of personality attributes that are described from the 1930s:

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At first Claretta was brusquely mauled by Mussolini under his desk or on mattress-like cushions installed for the purpose. Towards the end of his 23-year-dictatorship, however, the Duce’s potency inevitably diminished and he became addicted to a German-manufactured aphrodisiac pill trademarked Hormovin. Taking this prototype Viagra was, in some ways, a political act as it served to prolong the myth of the Duce as the one who never flagged. Not only did he squeeze women’s breasts as if they were ‘rubber automobile horns’ (in the words of one of his British biographers), he routinely made for their genitals, Trump-style.

Definitely! Being Italian, I find the whole Trump-style so soo sooo rétro, and my family is amused by his improbableness too. He reminds us of our (admittedly not so dignified) past.
Sadly your last one Silvio was involved in that international right-wing manufacture of the "Yellow Cake documents" so buffoons that they may be in many ways, these sorts are very dangerous when enabled without limit.
I've never understood what happened with that vicissitude...

Specifying: what I wrote does not mean I think they should get a free-pass, quite the contrary!

There's a certain kind of person who want power, or the appearance of power, more than anything else. They tend not to be great people, for a number of reasons. In the same way that really exceptional pro-athletes (and I don't mean ones who do their thing in their teens/early 20's) tend to be a very particular kind of person, and that's not always... you know... a good person.