Patton would also order his subordinates to send junior officers up to exposed forward positions until enough of them were killed to satisfy him. He would explicitly say he wanted more officers killed. As I read more, including his letters to his wife, he comes off as a really insecure, sensitive guy who is wildly overcompensating for it.
The only good thing I can ascertain about Patton was he was always at the front personally exposing himself to enemy fire, whether that is a good thing who knows. He was not a “Dugout Doug” type.