“I think it’s been a great success”, said Donald Trump’s loyal ally and architect of conservative manifesto “Project 2025” Paul Dans, speaking on Friday at the Delphi Economic Forum about the US President’s handling of reciprocal tariffs. “ We have seen the Art of the Deal unfolding.” he added, calling the policy “a big step forward.”
On a question about whether the US President buckled due to the effect of his policy on the US bonds, Dans categorically denied any such possibility. “There was no buckling at all,” he said. “The President and [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent made it clear that they know there will be a short-term distortion, but they’re looking at the long-term” he added, suggesting that the plan is restoring balance and fairness in global trade order even at the expense of short-term inflationary pressures. According to the Project 2025 architect, the 90 days period will lead to the US securing “the best deal possible” from the various countries.
“What we have done in the last 100 years is a deviation from our Constitutional handling,” Dans commented when discussing recent sweeping reforms in governance by the US administration. “We are a constitutional republic that was formed with many of the ideas first reincarnated here in Greece. But the growth of a progressive government and bureaucratic state has taken away from that”, he said, arguing that Project 2025 was not a threat to democracy but to bureaucracy. “Unelected bureaucracy is taking away from these decisions,” he added, suggesting that Trump needs reformers that should be able to take the heat, and who have to be outsiders who are outside “the Washington swamp.”
“It would be an honor to join the Trump administration”, he said when asked if he’d be willing to serve the US government, adding that he would still be happy to help the American president from the outside. “What Project 2025 did was an invitation for various people to join the cause”, he added, suggesting that it opened the path to individuals like tech billionaire Elon Musk to momentarily let go of their business activities to contribute to the ongoing political transformation.