A part of the analogy you miss is the greedy and unscrupulous nature of the peasant class. Like the revolting (in both meanings of the word) of of the peasant class of the French revolution, the modern, artificially created peasant class in the U.S. is also full of greed and envy. They've been taught to want the unearned, like the French peasants; they've been indoctrinated in blind bigotry, like the French peasants; they've been convinced that they bear no responsibility for their lives, like the French peasants. And they've been convinced that anyone who doesn't toe the politically correct line is an enemy of "the people", and therefor evil and worthy of death.

The greatest sin of the progressives working as Republicans and Democrats is the creation of the peasant class in America.
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Rudyard Kipling
Macdonough's Song

"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures"

Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth--
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept schoolmen are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.

Whether The People be led by The Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote--
These are things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.

Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King--
Or Holy People's Will--
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
Saying --after--me:--

Once there was The People--Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, 0 ye slain!
Once there was The People--it shall never be again!
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One might call that a republican mantra.