Have a friend (71) who escaped Yugoslavia at 9 years old with his family sailing across the Adriatic for 14 hours at night and picked up by a Greek patrol boat and finally made their way to the US as they had some family here.
He’s fond of saying the ignorant bastards here clamoring for socialism will be eating out of garbage cans like they did. They had nothing. The government controlled every aspect of your life while a cadre of the connected and well healed lived high on the hog. The secret police would show up at your door and people would disappear in the middle of the night and were never seen again.
The Czechs and Slovaks did rise-up in 1968 but the Russians sent the tanks in.
If we did so the Democrats would likely call in ChiCom reinforcements.