Will Trump's Second Musk Bet Pay Off?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump began his second term at the zenith of his political power.
58% : Trump is committed to tearing down, or at least mitigating, all these advantages.
56% : Donald Trump returned to the White House with a clean sweep of the battleground states and, for the first time in three tries, a plurality of the national popular vote.
54% : This also tests the Republicans' new, increasingly working-class coalition and to what degree can Trump and the party deliver tangible results for their new voters.
53% : The Department of Government Efficiency could make or break the 47th president.
52% : A dozen years ago, I wrote a book about the political prospects of limited government.
43% : But Trump is once again betting on Musk to deliver a big win where all the Democratic smart set says he has no chance.
42% : This is especially acute under Trump, whose agenda requires the government to work effectively, at least in its core functions.
30% : Trump carried voters making less than $50,000 a year, according to exit polls.
28% : But Trump, though still well to the right of most Democrats on economics even on purely Reaganite terms, has never really run as a government-cutter.

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