Could be. If you ever look at the Democrat boards, that's exactly the guy they want, the kind who would use a child as a human shield and also happens to be Martin Sheen.
If I remember correctly, that actor was Martin Sheen. Ironique, non?
But Dean reminds me of a young Adolf Hitler, especially when I see his raving mad speeches and his reliance on this combination of rage and charisma. I'm reading a lot about Weimar Germany and the rise of Hitler. The book is Ominous Parallels by Piekoff.
All you need is someone who can unite the socialists with the nationalists (read: protective-tariff folks, unions). Let him blame all problems on the Jews (read: our support of Israel). Let that person create a cult of personality for those who consider themselves the underdog, and you are, as one Freeper says in his tag line, one beer hall short of a putsch.