zenith

The operation reached a controversial zenith in July when scores of troops on horseback wearing tactical gear and driving armored vehicles, rolled through MacArthur Park.

All of which is to say, call “it” what you will — fascism; right-wing authoritarianism; the logical zenith of 21st century American conservatism — it has already happened here.

As slavery reached the zenith of its power, abolitionists would destroy the white consensus upon which it depended.

At their commercial zenith, they went on hiatus.

The zenith of that new-found vulnerability came at arguably the pinnacle of her career.