The one assumption you’re making is that they’d fight a conflict against an armed US resistance in the same handcuffed manner employed against the Iraqi jihadis. They won’t.
As this resistance would be a direct impact to their power, the Gov’t would respond with absolutely overwhelming force. They can play tit-for-tat against Iraq because it costs them little. They can’t play tit-for-tat when an armed resistance takes over, say, Denver.
I’m not saying don’t fight if it comes to that - I’m saying if it comes to that, prepare properly.
You presume to know what I assume, though I never made mention of it.
Now that you mention it, though, it's entirely probably that they'd try to level that sort of force against the people in the case of armed revolution. They'd try, but they'd fail, because the majority of our armed military personnel would mutiny against such treason.