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Even before the election, Zelensky shrugged off denigrating references from Trump, who at one point called him the “world’s greatest salesman” for his successes in garnering U.S. aid.

As a political lefty who has also admired Musk’s business successes, the scariest thing about his taking the reins of government is that his bulldozing, take-no-prisoners style has frequently paid off.

After all, pollsters who want to repeat their successes in 2024 will need to learn from what they did right this time.

While not on stage, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk got a major shout-out in Trump’s speech, with the president-elect, calling him an “amazing guy” and praising the recent successes of his space travel company SpaceX.

Its legislative successes—Obama’s health care law, Biden’s green tech investments—have been narrow procedural affairs, negotiated through mastery of Capitol Hill process rather than the mobilization of public energy and emotion.