A lot of it I think was just trajectory. But I think deregulation (lowering costs of domestic production) + tariffs (raising costs of imports) is probably the right approach.
I doubt it's deregulation especially in the short-term. It takes a herculean amount of deregulation to move gdp, and most of the impact would happen over the long term. Like they say it takes a lot of Harbinger's triangles to fill an Okun gap.
Honestly I think the Trump economy is mostly due to Trump yelling at the Fed to keep their foot on the gas. We had un/underemployment and he pushed them to lean a little harder on the accelerator.
How much real predictive signal is there in economists' consensus?