Trump is like the closest you can get to that situation and he's not very close at all.
Trump is truly IMHO a wannabe authoritarian. Just not very smart thus why he has failed. Someone like Putin and Xi Xinping and many others may share Trump's authoritarian tendencies, but they are all a lot smarter and a lot more strategic. If US had a leader with their level of strategic and smarts would they still be able to thwart it?
I actually don't think that somebody as smart as that would achieve the popularity necessary to take power in America. If Trump were intelligent, then his base wouldn't like him.
