You're right - the best approach to what's coming is to prepare for the coming persecutions, and protect your family and assets while laying low. Anyone trying to be a gung-ho hero instead will get squashed like a bug - there will be no organized resistance to back you up if you go "Rambo" on any of these totalitarian pricks. Proof of that is that in spite of the fact that the Left literally stole the White House there hasn't been any effective, mass movement in response to that. No mass boycotts, no massive street protests, no monkeywrenching, just a boatload of "warriors" pounding their keyboards into submission.
The scumbags who pulled the coup off are swaggering; rubbing our noses in it, gaslighting us with total impunity. In a virtuous, righteous society they'd instead be cowering in their homes afraid to show themselves in public. We're light years away from the spirit of 1776 and have been for decades. . .
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956