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  • More than twice. I assume you’re referring to the US Civil War and January 6, 2021.

    • The former colonies after the American Revolution only barely came together under the Articles of Confederation, which themselves were insufficient to hold the nation together.
    • Icky compromises were made in order to form the US Constitution, and those compromises arguably set the long stage for the later Civil War.
    • In the 1940s, there was a push for fascism in the US.
    • McCarthyism in the 1950s and continuing anti-Communist sentiment through the 1960s did a lot of work to silence any opposition
    • In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, there was the Brooks Brothers Riot, that put an end to vote counting in Florida, handing the election to Bush.
    • After 9/11, the PATRIOT Act created a surveillance state that we still labor under.

    I’m sure there are more.