www.americanthinker.com By Bruce Majors
All through the 2024 presidential campaign, some pundits, more on the right than the left, would report what the betting markets were saying. I believe betting markets have gradually been shown to actually be at least as accurate as most polling companies, many of which, especially if affiliated with a partisan leaning legacy media organization, seem to produce results that are what they want to hear or want voters to believe.
But now we know the result: Donald Trump was elected president, and he immediately began firing Fedcrats, making appointments, tweeting, issuing Executive Orders, and enacting policies. Most of his fans on X say he is doing more and doing it faster than they had hoped for. Conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt opined:
The question the Democrats and legacy media should be asking themselves: If the 2024 election was held again this Tuesday with the public fully informed of President Trump’s actions and personnel selections from his first month, how much bigger would his very big win become? I…
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) February 15, 2025
Even solidly right-wing writers like David Marcus say they underestimated Donald Trump’s superior mind for strategy: “Another way to look at that is that when Patel, RFK Jr, Hegseth, etc were nominated the assumption was, and I may have shared it to some degree, that those choices would spend political capital. Just the opposite happened.”
Some attribute the speed of Trump’s opening volley to “tech advisor” Elon Musk, who is operating on the Silicon Valley maxim that you should “move fast and break things.” Initially Democrats were paralyzed, unable to respond to the huge number of policies being thrown at them every day. Capitol Hill Democrats still seem to be unable to do much more than sing out of tune folk songs and recruit blue haired, septum pierced hippos to scream and march. The optics may be what is driving more and more voters to re-register as Republicans, independents, or any choice other than Democrat…
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