Trump and the techno-aristocrats don’t actually agree on that much; the former is basically a reactionary who wants to recreate the economy and the society of the 1950s, while the latter want to go to Mars. They do agree, however, on the great man in history theory. As they see it, the fate of mankind rests in the hands of a few geniuses whose efforts should be freed from regulation; the rest of us are just flotsam and jetsam who can and should be ignored.
It is no wonder that openly anti-democratic ideas are flourishing on the right. The problem, of course, is that aristocracies and monarchies have their shortcomings, too. For every Henry V, there is a John; for every Edward I, there is an Edward II; for every Venice in 1200, there is a reactionary aristocracy in the reign of Louis XVI.
In other words, sometimes the great man in history is just a guy on a golf cart.