The POTUS should not be considered a leader any more than the speaker of the house. He shouldn&#x27;t be leading &quot;the people&quot; to do anything, according to the Constituional role. But in the movies, he&#x27;s a standup guy every time so we get this weirdly quasi-religious idea that he&#x27;s some special person by virtue of the vaulted position. A position which has been wildly perverted in an incestuous political feedback machination. Patriot Act still in place? Yeah, now imagine the other cancerous beginnings of the Federal Reserve, Social Security, the IRS, the FCC and on and on. The POTUS isn&#x27;t a leader, it&#x27;s a political tool that affects society when hardships (usually financial) arise and congress is too slow and inept to handle it, so the executive branch acts and 1&#x2F;3 the legislative is too busy vying for the next election cycle to take a stand, leaving the acts in place the vast majority of the time. No matter how well or poorly conceived.