"(His) unwillingness to accept reality does not erase it." And that unwillingness makes him a dangerous man, IMO. Assuming he is, indeed, a sociopath (which I highly suspect), that disconnect from Reality makes him powerful, for it is that that is sooo convincing to his "true believers"- his own non-reality makes him seem to be "Right"- HE Believes it. That is the power of the sociopath. E.g. : David Koresh, etc., ad infinitum.