Given the mobs marching around the streets, it’s not too early or too unreasonable to recollect the French Revolution.
But there are MAJOR differences. The main one is that we are a middle class, bourgeois society. And WE ARE NEARLY ALL ARMED.
Our government could be turned against us. That would be bloody and awful, although even there I think vastly more people would defect than obey.
But mobs cannot conquer the masses of us. That is the specific reason the 2nd Amendment exists. We are all the Army which protects our freedoms. That was always supposed to be the job of all of us, just as it was in the early days of the Roman Republic, where everyone was expected to take his turn in the Legions.