Conservatives pundits eager for a full-throated campaign against the Clinton machine cheered the announcement on Wednesday that Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and pollster Kellyanne Conway would be taking over leadership of the Trump campaign, as CEO and manager respectively.

The Washington Post’s Robert Costa took to Twitter to remind people of Bannon’s accurate prediction five years ago about the political trend toward populist issues.

When I was with Bannon years ago in Pella, Iowa, with Palin, he predicted populism would take over GOP. Some people chuckled. He did not. — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

For Bannon, this is a career moment. He embraced Palin and populism, made Breitbart the HQ for what would become Trumpism. — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

Bannon has convinced Trump that rest of campaign needs to be bare-knuckles brawl, w/ full-bore populism/movement politics — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

I've known Bannon for years. He is Trump's alter ego. A colorful, edgy figure. Nationalist, deeply anti-estab. Media focused. — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

Story soon… BREITBART orbit is ecstatic… the Bannon-Coulter-Sessions wing of the right is now running GOP nominee's campaign — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

Costa also solicited comment from former RNC Chairman Michael Steele who praised the addition of Bannon to the Trump campaign as a “magical” choice that was “pissing off the right people.”

MICHAEL STEELE on the Bannon-led campaign… "It’s magical,” for Trump. “Pissing off the right people. That’s what it’s designed to do." — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich complimented the campaign’s expansion.

Newt to WaPo: “…they’re expanding from something that was like a medium-sized Senate race to a national campaign.” — Robert Costa (@costareports) August 17, 2016

Bloomberg’s Joshua Green, who wrote an extensive profile of Bannon last October in which he called him “the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America,” also tweeted some insight into the Bannon’s addition to the Trump campaign.

His motto is "Honeybadger don't give a shit," which in hindsight is pretty Trumpian https://t.co/iRN5mNuLC4 — Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) August 17, 2016

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, himself a longtime champion of populist positions on trade and immigration, weighed in with praise of Bannon:

Kellyanne is Smart, Tough and a Tiger in the Fight for @realDonaldTrump! Bannon and Conway Are Trump's Pivot! https://t.co/rkH8lqpFo7 — Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) August 17, 2016

Veteran GOP strategist Roger Stone also chimed in:

https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/765906017884528640

Veteran grassroots conservative leader Richard Viguerie also praised the addition of Conway and Bannon to Trump’s team in a statement to his website ConservativeHQ titled “Movement Conservatives Now Leading Trump Campaign.”

Praising Conway and Bannon as “movement conservatives,” Viguerie noted, “With Kellyanne and Steve at the top of the campaign, Mike Pence as Vice President and Senator Jeff Sessions at Donald Trump’s side the Trump campaign is shaping up to be the most ideological campaign since Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter.”

He continued: “Unlike the failed campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, who took the advice of the GOP establishment consultants and the media and ‘moved to the center,’ Donald Trump has moved right to bring movement conservatives into partnership with the conservative populists who won him the Republican primaries. This is a winning coalition.”

“I expect the closing months of the Trump campaign to be based on the winning conservative issues of law and order, winning the war with radical Islam and rebuilding our economy by removing the $2 trillion regulatory drag of the Obama years,” he added.

Calling Conway and Bannon “two of the conservative movement’s most talented and trusted strategists,” Viguerie said: “Trump’s decision to promote them to top leadership positions in his campaign will do much to close the deal with movement conservatives to actively support and vote for Donald Trump.”

Marjorie Dannenfelser of the pro-life organization the Susan B. Anthony List issued a statement praising Conway and Bannon:

I have known and trusted Kellyanne Conway my entire professional life. No one is better at understanding what real people are thinking and how to connect with them than Kellyanne. She and Steve both understand the importance of effectively communicating the pro-life position and leveraging the passion of the pro-life grassroots in winning elections. No two could be better positioned to help Donald Trump to take on and expose Hillary Clinton’s extremism in this general election.

Conservative writer Pam Geller compared Bannon to “Patton”:

https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/765936595853795328

Appearing on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday morning, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski applauded Bannon’s “win at all costs” approach, adding that “Steve is a person who’s had unparalleled success in the private sector. He is a person who, I think a little bit like myself, is a bit of a street fighter, a person who is willing to go right at his opponents.”

“You’ve got a candidate that wants to win,” Lewandowski noted. “This is a clear indication of that. If you look at Stephen Bannon and what they’ve built at Breitbart, it’s win at all cost, and I really think that makes people on the left very afraid because they are willing to say and do things that others in the mainstream media wouldn’t do.”

Finally, the candidate himself praised his new campaign leadership. Trump told the Associated Press that he has known both Conway and Bannon for a long time. “They’re terrific people, they’re winners, they’re champs, and we need to win it,” he said.

Update: Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA.), who unseated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during the 2014 primary, told The Hill: