It ignores the history of the Jedi as a peace keeping force of a "good" republic, who are dispersed from that service after a cruel dictator rises to take control over that republic with his supreme powers over the military and no political method to prevent or restrict that control.
As a comparison to the US, it's better to think about this as a concern about what happens as Congress continues to push more power into the hands of the President because they don't want to deal, or are incapable of compromising, due to political issues derived from radicalized voting bases formed from gerrymandered political districts.
In all this tongue in cheek stuff, there is a real possibility that some crazy radical religious fundamentalist ends up in power and abuses that... Oh George W Bush happened, did we survive?