Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
200 years after Peterloo it’s time to fight again for democracy
		In the face of an Establishment power grab, LYNN HENDERSON introduces the Politics for the Many campaign to reform our undemocratic parliamentary system 
	 
			LAST week Boris Johnson and his hard-right government launched an all-out assault on our already embattled democracy.
Not content with trying to force through a damaging no-deal Brexit and letting Britain crash out of the EU on October 31, last Wednesday he moved to shut down Parliament to make it harder for MPs to stop him.
Earlier that week we heard that he plans to pack the House with dozens of hard-Brexiteer peers, including Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin and billionaire hedge fund chief Sir Michael Hintze — both funders of right-wing Leave campaigns — in order to help him force his agenda through the Lords.
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