Donald Trump is a good example of the differences between psychopath and sociopath. Looking at his childhood, which we now have information about, he is a more likely a sociopathic criminal who idolizes and tries to imitate psychopathic leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jone Un, but just didn’t have the real street-smart thinking they do. He tried to be a Hitler, a psychopath, but just didn’t have the political finesse of Hitler, and ended up just being a criminal president.
Trump did use Hitler and Mussolini’s tactics, which he learned from books like a book of Hitler’s speeches that he reportedly studied. But I’am sure that if it had not been for a massive propaganda campaign by a syndicate of extremely wealthy corporate leaders( the Koch organization, and the John Birch society; the Republican party is essential John Bircher), he wouldn't have been able to do as well as he did Psychopaths are innately better at creating cults, like the one Adolf Hitler created in Germany, which he then used to start WWII.
It is this ability to gain peoples trust and then manipulate them that makes them so dangerous. With this ability they can run for political office and manipulate whole countries. Adolf Hitler always comes to mind, but he is just one of 100s throughout history. It is the psychopaths who start all wars, except war to push out from under a psychopathic leader. All Hitler needed was a cult of thirty percent to get into power, and it must be noted that Trumps cult is thirty percent of the American population. So, the cult is the true power.
Hitler was directly responsible for some 75 million deaths in World War II (which he started), including 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, and starvation. All of this from one psychopath and his conservative cult following. Without his conservative cult he could not have done what he did. Keep in mind that there is no difference between this Hitler cult and Trumps cult. Trump just didn’t have the organizing skills that Hitler did, and Germany’s democracy was weaker, but I can guarantee that if the environment had been right, and if Trump were to have gained absolute power the way Hitler did, he would have been just as ruthless as Hitler. He would have executed people on the spot the way Hitler did.