The Most Perilous Period In American History

Had Donald Trump and the Republicans not won the presidency and control of Congress in 2024, the transformation of the United States from a constitutional republic to a one-party socialist oligarchy would have accelerated exponentially.

Steve McCann | October 13, 2026

It is an unquestioned premise that the darkest period in the history of the United States was the Civil War (1861-1865), when the fate of the nation as a single unified entity hung precariously in the balance. However, the most perilous period in the nation’s 250-year history is the years between 2020 and 2024.

The five-year period between 2020 and 2024 saw the ascendancy of the Marxist/socialist movement into the political mainstream thanks to its takeover of the Democrat Party, the creation of a de facto police state, egregiously stolen elections, twenty million illegal immigrants calculatedly invited into the country, and the premeditated and wholesale shredding of the Constitution. All to set the stage for the transformation of the United States into a one-party socialist oligarchy.

2020 began with an unprecedented and malicious effort to create national panic in order to defeat Donald Trump and take over both houses of Congress in that year’s presidential election. To that end, the Democrat Party and its allies in the medical bureaucracy and legacy media deliberately lied and misrepresented the COVID-19 “pandemic.” They knew it was a virus that had essentially the same mortality rate as seasonal flu but chose to incite fear instead.

A de facto police state was created as all constitutionally mandated government limitations and individual rights were trampled and cast aside as national lockdowns and school closures were forcibly imposed, and the citizenry, via mandates and intimidation, were coerced into being vaccinated with unproven and dangerous vaccines that were falsely portrayed as........

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