His believers

"The 'gutter-elite' surrounding ... were united by the ties which normally unite revolutionaries, gangsters and place-seekers whose conjoint or converging efforts have been crowned with success, and these ties, like ropes which have been tarred, were rendered more durable by a rich, ... integument of perverted idealism and a profound faith - half-treacly, half-shrewd - in the genius of ..."

British historian Peter Fleming describes Hitler. Can you fill in the dotted spaces with the name of the charismatic leader today, similar to another in the past?