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Ed Pilkington

Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘disturbing’ quest to radically rewrite the US constitution

Conservative figures like Steve Bannon are promoting a state-based model for rewriting the US constitution.
Conservative figures like Steve Bannon are promoting a state-based model for rewriting the US constitution. Photograph: Alex Kent/AFP/Getty Images

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist in the Trump White House who is at the forefront of the Republican march toward hard-right populism, is throwing his weight behind a movement to radically rewrite the US constitution.

Bannon has devoted recent episodes of his online show the War Room to a well-funded operation which has stealthily gained ground over the past two years. Backed by billionaire donors and corporate interests, it aims to persuade state legislatures to call a constitutional convention in the hope of baking far-right conservative values into the supreme law of the land.

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