Dash is far, far more susceptible in that analogy. For Cryptonote coins i.e Monero, you need no external nodes to mix transactions/provide privacy/anonymity. With Dash, the government(s) can take control of the servers the masternodes are hosted on, threaten with jailtime for masternodes owners, etc etc.
We went through this stuff in quite some detail. The conclusion, correct me if I'm wrong, was that versus guv/TLA all coins are fucked, so any argument about that is obsolete.