The media and academia
Media and Prof’s? I do not think so.
The Brownshirts and Bolshevics were thugs. Their job was to terrorize the public. The chaos they created ushered in a police state. The first job was to both bring the B’s under control and destroy those who could not be controlled. In Russia the Bolshevics were slaughtered. In Gernmany they were cvoopted into the police state. What followed was rigid tyranny.
Who are the street thugs in our culture? They are gangs. Imagine them turned loose to rape and plunder. A police state would soon follow.