Beyond Today Magazine | United Church of God

Donald Trump won the election by grasping the alienation of broad sectors of society, not only from the federal government, but also from those who serve in it. There was a collision between the federal technocracy and those who had experienced and distrusted it.

Instead of making the nation great again and ending “American carnage,” as his campaign had promised, Trump’s presidency brought Americans to the brink of chaos with vicious police repression of peaceful demonstrations, armed militia patrolling city streets, looting of marquee commercial districts, masses in open rebellion, and 200,000 deaths due t

From the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 to the ebbing of the global Covid pandemic in 2021, America’s biggest challenges were twofold: dismal economic performance and paralyzing civic discord. On February 24, 2022, a great new challenge broke into the headlines: geopolitical conflict.

The Reagan era has reached its limits and can’t sustain the economy. The failure is in the process of creating a new set of competing social classes. This is reflected in the intensifying political crisis of the Trump presidency, in which the new social forces begin battling each other. This crisis will last through to the 2020s. In 2024, a new pre