The latest PPRI polling provides a stunning reflection on how Americans now regard Trump.

A survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), a nonpartisan independent research organization, found that 56% of Americans think that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

Moreover, the US public don’t share his view of himself as only 41% see him as “a strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness.”

Meanwhile an early October Washington Post poll found 47 percent of voters blamed Trump and Republicans for the current shutdown, while 30 percent blamed Democrats. A more recent Reuters poll found 50% blamed Republicans and 43% blamed Democrats according to the Post.

He’s also not doing well on economic vision. As G. Elliot Morris noted in Strength in Numbers, an\d an Economist/YouGov poll shows that 53% of Americans think the economy is getting worse. The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans now think Democrats, rather than Republicans, are the better party to keep the country prosperous, by a margin of 47% to 43%. This is a shift of 18 points in just over two years.

To cap things off Trump gave an insight into how he determines policy. After threats to send what he called a “surge”—a military term—of agents to San Francisco, Trump announced he had changed his mind. Trump attributed this change of course to “friends of mine who live in the area.”

Well,  it’s one way to run a country – if not an optimal one.