By Michael Bitzer
Of course, it can’t be a Monday morning without another crashing headline to start the week in politics. And this one gave me a pause to a past survey question that explored a concerning principle.
While in the Oval Office this morning, President Donald Trump was speaking about sending the military into American cities, and said the following:
Set aside if we can take his word that “he is not a dictator,” as soon as I saw this clip, I thought about a February tweet the president issued and a subsequent question that I had on the March 2025 Catawba-YouGov Survey of 1,000 North Carolinians.
Within a month of taking office, Trump sent out the following tweet:
This sentence is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who created the Napoleonic Code of civil law before declaring himself emperor of France.
