I will grant that the pack of rabid demonRATs running for the White House are a scary lot, indeed. But I'm not sure that a Republican Congressional majority and Republican control of the White House for the next 20 years will save the Republic. I have no doubt that the nation would survive another 8 years of RAT-domination; but what form it would be in after that is another thing.
There are many reasons to fear for the future of the Republic, however; the big one is how long major entitlements like Social Security and Medicare can go on spending at ever-increasing levels relative to how much tax money the bastards can steal from those who earn it.
I do think that while not all RATs fear the armed citizenry, at its core, the leadership of the DNC does see armed revolt as a possibility, should they push their real agenda too fast. As I said, there is always the unpredictable.
The 2nd Amendment was written into the Constitution for a reason: the Founders certainly did not think it would ever be impossible for the armed citizenry not to be able to remove a tyrannical government. It was considered as a last resort, and the Founders writings on this are clear. I firmly think that the armed citizenry today does present a little problem to those who think that they can institute some sort of soft communism. There can be no other reason why people like Feinswine push for these unconstitutional laws. The RAT voters on the whole are a hell of a lot more interested in keeping abortion legal and keeping the welfare state growing than they are in disarming the average American.