Yeah, I think you make a good point there.
I’ve always thought people like this are simply doing what they “think” a leader is, its their attempt at playing leadership, their portrayal of it. Perhaps the people over them in their childhood and schooling were actually jerks and not true leaders, or they picked up what they thought a “leader” was through films and tv shows, when they were really just jerk characters.
Its like a bluff. They don’t knkw how to be a leader but they’re doing what they think a leader does. And they just are a b1tch/a$$hole person with some power.