The cult of leaders is childish in the extreme.
Leaders are a comparative irrelevance.
Policies are all that really matter.
I support the anti-leader camp in the Green Party.
Leaders are very 20th century.
They are not necessary any more.
The "leaderisation" of politics is an attempt to reduce politics to personality differences as the policy differences become less and less.
It is what capitalism wants. The leaders are its puppets.