Before and during the primary contests, Trump stood out with loud and politically incorrect comments about illegal immigrants and Muslim visitors to the U.S. But now, that brashness is morphing into something a bit different. That was on full display last week when Trump basically blamed the EgyptAir crash on terrorism before most of the key facts came in. That's an entirely different kind of risky talk than bashing border security.

It was a gamble that seems to be paying off as all the proper experts now also say that terrorism is the most likely cause of the disaster. Trump getting well ahead of that part of the story would have made him look bad had the facts come out differently, but he saw it as a good bet to seem much more realistic and even forceful in a crisis. By contrast, Clinton and co. seem slow, and too politically correct to tell Americans the truth.

Trump has been similarly brash, but not so offensively brash, in his recent attacks on slow TSA security lines at airports. And the granddaddy of all perhaps premature, but still relatively safe, brash moves has been his decision to release his 11 top choices for Supreme Court justice. All of these moves present the voters with a specific idea of what a President Trump would sound like and even do. And while they are all a bit or a lot presumptuous in nature, they are much more plausible and popular than his earlier brashness on immigration and trade.

