'We are in a full-on scrimmage for the future of America First,' says Project 2025 director Paul Dans

'We are in a full-on scrimmage for the future of America First,' says Project 2025 director Paul Dans

Behind its trim green shutters and colonial-style facade, the Monocle Restaurant has for decades played host to the Washington DC elite. Signed pictures of presidents and senators who have lunched there adorn its walls. It is a short walk from Capitol Hill and the Heritage Foundation think-tank, the longtime crucible of adamantine rightwing ideas. If my guest is to be believed, it was here, over "sirloin steaks" with "a martini or two thrown in"…