In style more Castro & Hitler than Stalin--although all three clearly identified with manipulating the massed mob.
But Obama has employed a great deal out of what one might call "Hitler's Play Book":
See Leftwing Chickens Coming Home.
That said, Stalin, it should be noted, bears part of the responsibility for so many naive academics buying the idiotic idea that Hitler was somehow on the "Right," which is demonstrably false. This illusion enables Obama's behavior to go unrecognized by many who would otherwise be alarmed.
William Flax
You’re exactly right.
“This illusion enables Obama’s behavior to go unrecognized by many who would otherwise be alarmed”.
They are the Useful Idiots.
Many of the political prisoners who Stalin sent to the Gulags and had later been released, wept when Stalin died. That’s very telling.