Bradley Tusk, venture capital and political consultant: Elon Musk, for all of his accomplishments, really benefits from the status quo. He is a genius at acting like he is subverting the status quo, and yet what does he want? He wants government contracts for SpaceX, he wants Section 230 preserved so X can make more money, he wants lots of tax incentives for electric vehicles and Tesla, so this is a guy who very much has a strong economic interest in keeping things the way they are, and he's betting on who he thinks will be the winning candidate because it translates into a lot more money for him and his companies.

Ruchir Sharma, head of international business at Rockefeller Capital Management: “We introduce 3,000 new regulations a year in America. In the last 20 years, we’ve gotten rid of 20 regulations in total. We’ve also become a bailout nation. Back in the 1950s, ’60s,  ’70s and right up until the 1980s, the conc