Want to bet? Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin, just to mention a couple of examples, certainly did. The millions of people who died as a result of their "power flows from the barrel of a gun" political strategies could attest to that, if they weren't already dead.
The tactics being employed by our so-called political, media, academic, etc. classes, especially the Obama administration/regime, against the American people are beginning to precisely fit the "Stalinist" revolutionary template, which leads inexorably to oppression and tyranny.
Whether Palin, or any other person, is able to step up and meet the challenge will be revealed in the fullness of time, by dint of their own performance. We need to focus on the socialist totalitarian enemies in front of us. As far as I'm concerned, those who refuse to do this and insist on continuing the internecine warfare against their professed "own side" are actually with the enemy...